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  • I had a number of points to discuss, but they pale before this:

    Software will eventually be able to understand human language

    First, someone surely must have tried to code it, but I never heard of any system like that. Second and more important: anyone understands how we understand? And how the distance between understanding and communicating is covered? Someone? Anyone?

    And before some smart person tries for the thousand’s time this “but computers will get bettah” shit of argument: even with the whole task of putting it to code aside, we know shit about how we think, understand and speak, that’s coming from me having Master’s degree in linguistics











  • Shanmugha@lemmy.worldtoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksCure for X-Men
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, and all the cure-framing is fucked, but they failed to show this. They are mutants, so changing them into ordinary humans means at least re-writing all the cells in the body, which is way more drastic a change than what we now know as gender transition. This kind of changes is not a fucking cure, it is mutation of different kind, in the terminology of this universe