WTFwhatthehell

Keep in mind that the deaf community is remarkably isolated culturally.

ASL isn't english as sign language, it's not like the difference between 2 mediums like between spoken english and written english. It's not just signed english. It's as different as something like chinese.

As such quite a lot of deaf people can read no more than enough to handle restraunt menus and bus stops.

So imagine there was a tribe of native americans living in the modern age who had managed to maintain their own entirely separate culture, language and community. They consider themselves to be doing just fine. Imagine that the reason they've managed to not have their culture dissolve into the larger one was some kind of genetic quirk that left most of their kids only able to easily learn their own language. Many who don't have this tend to drift away.

Then someone comes along from outside their community going "we've come up with a brain implant that lets your kids learn english, it works best when implanted when really young. isn't this great, they can stop being like you"

You know damned well that you entire culture could be wiped out in a handful of generations. Every poem, play or even trivial injoke will likely become a footnote in some anthropologists book while the children of the tribe drift off into the wider culture.

The incentives per individual line up quite well such that the best thing most parents can do for their kids is to give them the implant. But for the community as a whole it's a death sentence.

The blind community is far far less gnarly about the idea of eye implants in part because Braille is basically english optimised for touch. The blind community is fundamentally less culturally isolated and partake of the mainstream culture far far more, so implants allow them to partake more of their community rather than destroying it.

Something the tool highlighted to me was that r/science seems to auto remove posts with too many links to external sites.

Silently.

Which explains why there was such a drop off in comments that include good citations. The auto-mod policies simply discourage citing your sources.

Consider bayesian poisoning.

Spammer wants to get real spam email through. So they craft a lot of nonsense emails that don't advertise product but contain keywords normally associated with non-spam.

This helps widen the error bars on the spam filter to make it more likely spam gets through.

The life expectancy has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 15 years.

When my nephew was diagnosed with DMD a lot of boys with it were dying around 13. With steroids and various treatments it's now normal for many DMD boys to make it into their 20's.

though some of the older intense physical therapies are less used now because they increased the amount of scaring in muscle tissue.

28 is pretty unusual, even today

There's some very promising tools that work by picking out "high-entropy" words (words where the AI doesn't care so much if they're that exact word) and picking alternatives to create a detectable watermark.

My issue with this is that it wouldn't distinguish between use types:

One oerson might say "please write this essay for me" while the second might say "I'm dyslexic, please highlight and correct the kind of errors dyslexic people tend to make in this draft" (the exact use one dyslexic friend found very useful)

Watermarking doesn't distinguish between these 2 and a general ban on AI tools will screw over a lot of people with disabilities who stand to benefit from these tools.