Zitat von: Eratosthenes am 13. März 2026, 09:20:54Kann man eigentlich, anhand der im Netz veröffentlichten Barrennummern erkennen, wann diese Barren produziert wurden? Bei den aktuellen Lieferungen müsste es ja ein Termin vor Februar 2023 sein, wenn sie drei Jahre sicher in den festungsartig ausgebauten Tresoren der Partnerfirmen gelagert haben.
Sollten sie erst kürzlich gekauft worden sein, haben sie dann über doppelt so viel gekostet, wie damals für sie eingenommen wurde?
Zitat von: Eratosthenes am 13. März 2026, 08:01:12Zitat von: Urs Reggeli am 13. März 2026, 05:49:41Damals in Guyana haben sie ja gesagt, sie würden die dortigen Barren verkaufen und mit dem Erlös dann österreichische kaufen, wegen irgendwelcher Zertifizierungs-Bürokratie.
Man könnte sich natürlich fragen, wer diese nicht marktgängigen un- oder falsch zertifizierten Barren dann kauft. Eine der vielen offenen Fragen.
Wenn ich mich recht erinnere hiess es damals, dass man das Gold verpflichtend an den Staat Guyana verkaufen müsse.
Zitat von: Juliette am 13. März 2026, 14:21:35Nachdem anscheinend ALLE KIs in Versuchen bei Kriegssimulationen irgenwann eine Atombombe losgeschickt haben,Man sollte sie gegeneinander Tic-Tac-Toe spielen lassen...
)Zitat von: Juliette am 13. März 2026, 11:13:38Na ja, da hätte sich das Problem mit der Überalterung der Gesellschaft schnell gelöst.Die Krankenkassen würden bis auf Weiteres nur die im Video gezeigte Beta-Version finanzieren.![]()
Zitat von: Daggi am 12. März 2026, 23:42:22https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FvJjfzEAnYcSie sollen ja auch in der Altenpflege eingesetzt werden...
Der neue 80.000 $ Roboter im Haus
ZitatColin Wrighthttps://x.com/SwipeWright/status/2031485830544728477
@SwipeWright
🚨ALERT: Top-ranking ecology journal Ecology Letters has published a "Viewpoint" paper titled "There is No Consensus on Biological Sex."
The authors call the "sex binary" a "simplistic and harmful ideolog[y]."
Yet they then claim that no view of sex (gamete-based, multivariate, and even "sex emininativism" that holds biological sex doesn't exist at all) is necessarily true or untrue, and that biologists should simply specify which definition they're using for practical purposes.
This is nonsensical, because every non-gametic view of sex is logically incoherent and self-refuting because they all rely on gametes as the conceptual anchor.
It claims the gamete-based definition is flawed because it isn't "inclusive of reproductive approached beyond anisogamy" and fails to "classify organisms before sexual maturity or after reproductive cessation as having a sex."
But anisogamy (reproduction via the fusion of gametes of different sizes) isn't meant to apply to isogamous organisms (organisms that reproduce via the fusion of same-sized gametes). Anisogamy and the sexes—male and female—are fully intertwined and inseparable.
Isogamous organisms don't have sexes; they have "mating types." They're different from sexes, and that's why biologists aren't "inclusive" of isogamous organisms when talking about males and females.
And the notion that a gamete-based definition doesn't apply to sexually immature individuals or individuals who have ceased producing gametes ignores that the sexes are defined by having the biological FUNCTION to produce small or large gametes—and things still have a function even when its not being currently realized.
The authors would know all this had they read the academic work of leading scholars on the gamete-based view of sex like myself,
@TomasBogardus
,
@hoovlet
,
@byrne_a
,
@FondOfBeetles
,
@Evolutionistrue
, and
@RichardDawkins
.
None of us were cited, so they just argued against a strawman.
There's so much more wrong with the paper than I stated above, but an X post isn't the best format. I have reached out to the editors of Ecology Letters asking if they would consider publishing a counter-Viewpoint.
ZitatThere is No Consensus on Biological Sexhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/401596798_There_is_No_Consensus_on_Biological_Sex
There is ongoing scientific and societal discourse on the definition of biological sex. At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary approaches to defining sex and synthesise the active discourse to conclude that there is no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations. While there is no current consensus, we do not advocate for a single definition and contend that a lack of unanimity is not inherently problematic. No matter what definitional choices are used, we provide actionable recommendations to improve accuracy when describing sex. Most importantly, regardless of scientific debates, no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights.