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  • imo the actual etymology is weirder

    it was invented by richard dawkins in the selfish gene in the 1970s

    it's used to describe an "idea-gene"; something that spreads and mutates not through biological means but through communication

    like a mind-virus

    hence why it sounds like a portmanteau of "memory" and "gene"

  • i'm assuming it's this part:

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    • fingerprints are not genetic, but are formed by the movement of the fetus in the womb. while they are not a reliable way to identify someone out of a general population (the likeness is about 1:10000; there have been wrongful convictions based off of fingerprint data) they can be used to differentiate two individuals.
    • almost everyone has some insignificant scarring on the hands or face that's created after birth and which is tied to some stupid story about cutting cheese or whatever.
    • everyone has some weird fetish. if you don't think your fetish is weird, it's because you're in company that shares it.
  • prevent people from opposing the government

    ...so it's working then

  • that's not a workable strategy because when you redefine terms like that you sound just like a conspiracy theorist. exhaust gases are not "chemtrails", they're exhaust gases. they're dangerous and everywhere, but they're not a secret government conspiracy.

    we don't need a "new way" to talk about things with people who refuse to understand.

  • that's not a =, it's a ═ (U+2550 BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE HORIZONTAL). you can tell because == doesn't connect but ══ does.

  • why not? looks fine

  • i had no idea this was a thing in american courts. it just seems like an insane thing to include in a murder trial

  • i was responding to the questions posted in the comment i replied to.

    also, doesn't that make this entire thing worse?

  • it would hold the same meaning as now, which is nothing.

    this is automatic writing with a computer. no matter what you train on, you're using a machine built to produce things that match other things. the machine can't hold opinions, can't remember, can't answer from the training data. all it can do is generate a plausible transcript of a conversation and steer it with input.

    one person does not generate enough data during a lifetime so you're necessarily using aggregated data from millions of people as a base. there's also no meaning ascribed to anything in the training data. if you give it all a person's memories, the output conforms to that data like water conforms to a shower nozzle. it's just a filter on top.

    in regards to the final paragraph, i want computers to exhibit as little personhood as possible because i've read the transcript of the ELISA experiments. it literally could only figure out subject-verb-object and respond with the same noun as it was fed, and people were saying it should replace psychologists.

  • that's not fair

  • i'm glad you're taking it as intended, i was worried about my tone...

    a version that could be used in a restricted setting would

    • be offline-first (or online-optional, even)
    • install and work with minimal privileges (no curl|sudo bash)
    • have few to zero external dependencies that need vetting (to get past IT)
    • send and store very minimal amounts of data off-device (especially important for PII like user accounts)
    • use only audited and proven crypto and auth (because nobody should be rolling their own there)
    • allow bring-your-own-database setups for the server (because some places run the same DB software for everything)
    • play well with other tools on a posix system, e.g. make sure data files are structured text rather than binary (for future-proofing)
    • if running in a browser-based environment, preferably work without scripts enabled (to eliminate XSS risks)
    • if running in a native environment, be open and reproducible (so builds can be verified)
    • keep to itself; e.g. make sure to keep stuff in its own namespace and not spread files around (for the server this is usually accomplished by containerization but not everyone allows running stuff like docker)
  • i just do not wish to be perceived

  • my family's old farmhouse has communal outhouses. this was the norm until like 150-200 years ago, and was still common here into the early 1900s.

  • i learned from a friend that used to work in banking that some countries have laws that basically make contracts and invoices void if they are not correctly gendered.

  • it's not, chernobyl doesn't have cooling towers

    sorry for tisming

  • yes. except for the first few months (usually the first half-a-year) when both parties can terminate the employment within one month.

  • i am a shareholder. buying shares is only open to people working in the company. you have to sell them back when you leave.