A hue of orange

Nitpick, oder than the federal republic of Germany yes, older than the German Empire founded in 1870, no

Similar to the original meaning of this post. Many countries forbid people to enter the military and similar office, if they are known to hold extreme believes (e.g. extreme right wing rhetoric has been used by them or such). Not always foolproof though

I think you are correct as it is now. And I do agree, as it is right now it is not practical to be completely secular for people holding these offices.

However, ideally, these groups would not need the recognition in this way as they ought to already have it otherwise and understanding that at some places some things are limited, should not discourage them to believe in what they want.

The distinction you make is fair. What I meant by active is as you describe “operating a vehicle”, pedestrians are active participants as well, but you arguably are more likely to cause harm when misusing vehicles than on foot.

I was generally speaking about cities where most of these fines/sentences happend. In rural areas it is harder in many countries, although bare extreme mountainous parts, Japan is generally OK here as well.

Though I believe in these parts you are not only less likely to cause harm when drunk driving + police is less likely to stop you as well.

Generally speaking, it is always possible to either plan well enough to be able not to operate a vehicle drunk, or to simply don’t drink if the former isn’t possible. Don’t you agree?

I gave Germany as an example, but this is the case for many countries. Japan, Germany, UK, some regions of Australia, etc.

Danke, zurück!

Yes I see that problem and in the best case it would not be renouncing their beliefs not to wear something where it is not appropriate, but there are many other beliefs or reasons where one is excluded from official office/army, etc.

I would say ideally not as they represent the state and thus should not wear iconography of any sort for secular states.

I also know that this might not be exactly practial in reality

Not really, same in Germany if you are generally drunk in traffic (except by foot or public transport, i.e. an active participant) the same sober laws apply. So the incentive is not to do that when drunk. Also believe me when you lose your driving license completely you will care if you need it, and even if you don’t, fines hurt, too.

Japan is even harsher as you can go to prison directly, and if you are in their court system once (that is after only a fine or simple suspension) due to customs and cultural norms you will be found guilty with a chance of about 99 % (the Japanese court system is notoriously bad).

Alternatives to escalating by using a car can bet walking or taking the metro, the latter is easily possible in Japan, for instance. When the trains don’t run there are plenty cheap manga cafes or capsule hotels.

I agree, though I am of the opinion that in secular states (at least at home and in peace time) government officials (including the army) should not wear any religious iconography

I think it is very weird to have that tattooed or on any military gear. Secularism and such, but that is the heraldry of the former Kingdom of Jerusalem. Albeit being the result of crusades, I don’t think it is supremacist by itself?

Edit: Also the flag of the country of Georgia. Going by this, the US military either serves in the Georgian army as of recent or they confused theirs with the country again?

Edit#2: Quick wikipedia, also apparently still the symbol of the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem nowadays

Same bei mir, aber Verteidigung der Doktorarbeit Anfang Januar

But neither can you discredit anything without evidence. The basis of science is falsifiability. That is, we have to be able to prove it wrong.

To be honest, I feel like what you describe in the second part (the monkey analogy) is more of a genetic algorithm than a machine learning one, but I get your point.

Quick side note, I wasn’t at all including a discussion about energy consumption and in that case ML based algorithms, whatever form they take, will mostly consume more energy (assuming not completely inefficient “classical” algorithms). I do admit, I am not sure how much more (especially after training), but at least the LLMs with their large vector/matrix based approaches eat a lot (I mean that in the case for cross-checking tokens in different vectors or such). Non LLM, ML, may be much more power efficient.

My main point, however, was that people only remember AI from ~2022 and forgot about things from before (e.g. non LLM, ML algorithms) that were actively used in code completion. Obviously, there are things like ruff, clang-tidy (as you rightfully mentioned) and more that can work without and machine learning. Although, I didn’t check if there literally is none, though I assume it.

On the point of game “AI”, as in AI opponents, I wasn’t talking of that at all (though since deep mind, they did tend to be a bit more ML based also, and better at games, see Starcraft 2, instead of cheating only to get an advantage)

How so? A Large Language Model is usually a transformer based approach nowadays, right (correct me if outdated)?

AI is artificial intelligence, which has been used and abused for many different things, none of which are intelligent right now (among others used for machine learning).

Machine learning is based on linear algebra like linear regression or other methods depending what you want to do.

An algorithm is by definition anything that follows a recipe so to say.

All of these things, bare transformers and newer in development approaches like spiked neural networks or liquid neural networks are fairly basic, no?

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Sorry, I think we are talking of the same thing. In Germany that is the way it is. Civil union and marriage is equivalent, you dont have to get married at a church, the only important thing is to go to the state for a few minutes and tell them basically.

I thought that the problem was that the state still has to accept things such as (whatever you call it lets say) unions of things such as same sex partner and so.

Problem is the civil union is mostly historically influenced often (tends to be less these days)

I am not talking about what it does, I am talking about what it is.

And all tools do tend to replace human labor. For example, tractors replaced many farmhands.

The thing we face nowadays, and this is by no means limited to things like AI, is that less jobs are created by new tools than old destroyed (in my earlier simile, a tractor needs mechanics and such).

The definition of something is entirely disconnected from its usage (mainly).

And just because everyone calls LLMs now AI, there are plenty of scientific literature and things that have been called AI before. As of now, as it boils down all of these are algorithms.

The thing with machine learning is just that it is an algorithm that fine tunes itself (which is often blackbox-ish btw). And strictly speaking LLMs, commonly refered to as AI, are a subclass of ML with new technology.

I make and did not make any statement of the values of that technology or my stance on it

I mean doesn’t it heavily depend what you refer to as AI?

ML algorithms, come very close to LLMs and have been back in the day refered to as AI. They are also used in code completion.

Also both of these are algorithms, but with weights defined by data input.

The state cares insofar as your partner gets certain rights and will be included as family in many things.

For instance, deciding for you in medical cases, being informed if something happens, getting money from your life insurance whatever.

No marriage would mean the two are not connected at all in the states eye and thus not family.

You could say, ok lets just enable putting that into some record without marriage, but the state wants to safeguard itself as you can get things like citizenship and such

And in most states that is what you define as civil unions (there is no marriage as such often).