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It's silly to say that something is "biological determinism" just because it points out differences between men and women. Almost all traits have a strong overlap between men and women, including mental/personality traits, but occupational choice tends to be driven by extremes at a personal level. In general, men and women are about equally good at math, but at the far right end of the bell curve, men outnumber women significantly. Steven Pinker cites in "Human Nature" that at 6'0, men outnumber women almost 2000 to 1. Height is one of the more substantial examples of sexual dimorphism, but study after study has found sexual dimorphism in mental traits as well. This doesn't mean people should be judged based on their group's characteristics (which would be biological determinism) but that group differences can be quite severe at the extremes.

It's worth pointing out that men also tend to outnumber women significantly at the far left end of most bell curves. Data appears to show that for many traits, men have higher variability of traits, possibly caused by the differing sexual selection strategies of men and women. (There is much more diversity among mitochondrial DNA than Y-chromosomal DNA, which is just one piece of evidence among many that a smaller number of males produce a disproportionate amount of the offspring.)

People who want to paint pre-civilized (or pre-industrial) peoples as egalitarians will only point to specific behaviors in specific tribes. What they won't do is refer to the rates of violent death among those peoples, which are significantly higher than what we put up with even in the worse parts of the developed world. It's noble savage mythology to the core.

The article specifically says that he's willing to do more of the chores or whatever is asked of him around the house. That is compromise. I don't care about clutter whatsoever, and while I'd be happy to clean to make my partner feel better, it's not going to make me care any more. This article just reads like a woman who is mad that her husband doesn't share her perspective -- she notes that he has no problem doing the work.

Comparing chess and go AI to one another isn't a great comparison. As a high-level chess player, when a chess computer makes a recommendation to me, I can generally immediately recognize the reasoning behind the move, although I may need to investigate to understand why it's better than other options. Chess engines are recognizably different from human players in stylistic ways (no fear, etc) but the way in which a top tier engine like Stockfish plays chess "oddly" is very different from how AlphaGo plays go "oddly".

Stockfish views chess completely objectively, unlike a human, but ultimately plays in ways that a human can recognize immediately.

AlphaGo, apparently, does not.

This may change over time as human Go players learn from the AI.

This is how I feel too. This is getting out of control.

"Humans Need Not Apply" on YouTube is a good start.

If you're not playing on Lichess, you're on the wrong site. I am USCF 2100 and have played on almost every chess server. Nothing comes close.

This is the main reason I won't leave Telegram. I don't need perfect privacy, I've never seen any reports of Telegram actually being breached, and I use four different devices over the course of my day. Each one has a fully functioning Telegram client.

Some of us even use both.

This is a great point. I work with exceptionally bright kids, so I push things like computer literacy and exploration, but for most Americans computers are simply tools. "With great power comes great responsibility."

I survived like this by sleeping only 3 hours a night for years. It is possible.

You're not being taken care of. You don't learn to make all of your own choices, but it was exactly that problem that destroyed me. I suddenly had all of these responsibilities and decisions and things I had to deal with alone, and I ended up throwing away my full scholarship to a private school by playing WoW all day instead, surrounded by coke bottles in a dorm room.

Military discipline would have been great for me because I would have had some functional baseline. Unfortunately, there is no analogue to "just join the military" for the disabled.

I've had my Sprint plan for a few years and I'm grandfathered in to unlimited data. Before I had Internet set up in my apartment, I used 400 GB in one month with it tethered to two laptops, a desktop, and a PS3. No complaints and no slowdowns.

Are these plans really nonexistent nowadays?

I find that both of you are right and this is why I'm always broke.

Is this a real RMS quote or a parody? Hard to tell.

Those of us with more "normal" lives can never understand how much RMS gave up for his dream. Is he a weird old man with some unsettling habits? Probably, but that makes him no less of a genius. He could have done anything and he chose to give us GNU.