@gullok @iju @joho The duality of sex being both a taboo and a thing that everyone does leads to very confusing nonsensical things.What I would call "mystification" (make it obscure but with a lot of silent rules), akin to religious practices from secretive cults. Just on a global scale.
The relationship of children, teenagers and younger people with sex is currently as contradictory as I explained above and only harms them. Demystifying sex is probably the first step to solve that.

@gullok @iju @joho the excuse of sex, most of the time (if not the entire time) is used to specifically harm two communities: women who have found a kind of work that is safer than it's previous iterations (webcam prostitution vs actual physical prostitution) and queer people. The queers has always been the primary target for saying "kids should never have ever any knowledge about sex or they turn queer and evil and queer and non-christian". Just change "sex" for "queer" and boom, all logical.

@gullok @iju @joho Probably the most reliable way and correct way to read all this issue is through the lenses of "if it is problematic for children,it can be problematic for everyone, and thus requires a solution to a problem, rather than a vet of the entire topic"
The true issue at hand here is: gambling mechanisms to get money, and segregation to get money.
The true problem to solve is that the way the world we built pays better for optimizing evil than anything else
Sex is it's another story

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I think you can imagine what "getting your ID before entering in a computer" implies, well before age related issues.
Besides that, treating children (specially teenagers) like livestock without agency instead of valid persons with valid thoughts and a valid ability to contribute to culture and society feels beyond wrong.
But that's about minor's rights, and by what you said you wouldn't even allow them to vote with some arbitrary "they're stupid" logic.

@gullok @joho a gay person in Russia.

@ahto Anyways I want to have nothing to do with this guy anymore, so if any conversation pops up I would appreciate not being mentioned, cheers.

@ahto it isn't even the first time I see someone using such paternalizing behaviour, it's manipulator 101.
For reals this dude has the profile of someone who can (and probably has) do some very disturbing stuff to people. I had similar mechanisms when I was a "too smart for a teenager" and at some point decided to avoid like the plague. An exfriend of mine who had a similar situation didn't. He's a fascist now. Just like most of the people who do this kind of thing.

@ahto I just thought about the part in which he assumed I didn't go into neurology cuz "I couldn't" instead of "I decided it wasn't the path I should follow" and thus "I didn't study shit about it,nor interested myself into it,nor followed the advancements on the field,nor even got somebasic introductory lessons into the field".Once I noticed he just did that, from someone telling him specifically how it goes, that he's completely lost to himself and whatever he has done to the people around him

@troed Okay, let's just put the things neatly in this one:
-Consciousness is still heavily discussed, mostly cuz it's ending up on philosophy as hard sciences can't demonstrate anything clearly.
-We can determine some aspects of behavior, not all of them, and we don't know if it's related to randomness or something else entirely.
-Last time I updated on this was 2024, when all the AI bullshit was happening, to be able to point it out.

I won't spend my time on sources cuz my god I'm tired

@troed buddy i got the career I wanted in the end, cuz all that shit was full of people attempting to only make money and not making a better world.
I found out the way to make a better world is unrelated to companies and institutions that have been compeltely overtaken by neoliberalism.
I've already taken the classes, that is an -introduction-. Probably to the physiology of the brain (as most are) through the lenses of that it -explains- consciousness.
Fun fact, there's no consensus on that.

@troed I would explain BY DETAIL a bunch of shit but honestly, I like to read, not to post, as you told someone else.
Apply your bullshit philosophy, go find a book, someone more intelligent than you explaining something, or anything inbetween. I tend to do that, and I become better by doing that.
This is a recommendation. Which I shouldn't be giving to someone so fucking pretentious as you, but there you have it.

@troed Are you a fucking idiot? Wait no you already answered that.
You're a developer, not a neurologist. And by the looks of it, you haven't even taken a basic course at a university or read half a book.
It may not be my career now, but I aimed it to be my career. And this is -basics- of how not to treat science as a yes or no.
Brain is still very much a black box of mysteries, for reasons related to actual functionality, not to reasons related to probability.
Get a grip, fool.

@troed @gabrielesvelto "very similar to the human brain" is a major missunderstanding of a human brain.
Retract your propaganda, post less, read more.

@eniko thanks for always giving us the best posts to make blocklists about.
And telling us which ones attract the worse kind of people I would identify as "burnable"

@rose_alibi "it is about the very ofter ignored contributions of young people to culture"
I love you for that one. Damn me if I ain't on the front seat of telling eveyone I know every few days that "young people" has the word "people" in it and it entails everything of what any other "people" are and do.

@robpike after many years deliberating what mattered to me and how to attempt to live as ethically as possible under capitalism I found out that the best way was to support local artists.
And now I am afraid they're trying to scam me with the AIgen bullshit.

Problem is I've been only 5 years on this position. And 2 of those have been under unnecessary stress.
The big corpos haven really never been as burnable as today.