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Power is one factor informing policy, empathy is another. Neither is sufficient for a policy that sustains the system for long on its own. Only focusing on power would result in e.g. exploitation of Africa. But most don't like this due to empathy.

Focusing only on empathy often misses the point too as it tends to get politicized, overinflating minor issues as in this case, which will ultimately result in power conflicts, degrading long-term sustenance.

That would be an out-of-context quote.

I'd say that attempting to prohibit this tradition has a net negative impact on the integrity and functioning of society because the harm in question is very minor but the reaction to such an attempt will be major. I'm sure you are trying to twist this into "but then I could anesthetize and then circumcise you", however, in that case I'd retaliate so drastically that it would negatively impact the functioning of society much more than say 100 circumcisions, hypothetically speaking.

Even a few days or weeks after the mutilation the consequences are extremely minor. It is a very low-priority issue.

It is very minor mutilation though, it does not matter.

Read the [...]. The harm is to minimal that it is a non-issue.

Actual barbarism would impair the functioning and productivity of society. The harm in this case is so negligible that it does not matter.

What matters the most is the cohesion, functioning and productivity of society, which is unaffected by circumcision.

The notion of consent is arbitrary. You could also regard religious cults as primary, then you would need their consent to imposing your personal aesthetics.

You can always build things more safely with more resources (more maintenance, more checks, more testing etc.), the question at the end of the day is whether it is economical. I don't think this question can be answered upfront in this case.

Lilium's plane has 30 engines, multiple independent battery packs, and electric motors are way more reliable than jet engines (due to being so much simpler). A Lilium plane may have a 1000x higher chance of a crash in case of full engine failure, but perhaps that can be compensated for by 1000x times simpler/redundant propulsion technology. This seems to be very hard to assess in theory, so we probably just have to wait and see how it performs in practice.

It's behind a paywall for me.

I wonder what kind of speedup can we expect from neuromorphic computing within the next 5-10 years?

If they were too competent these bureaucracies would abolish themselves, or at least decimate their own funding.

The model only has about 1B parameters which is relatively small.

The language models that produced very impressive results have >>50B parameters, e.g. GPT-3 with 175B, Aleph Alpha Luminous (200B), Google PaLM (540B). GPT-3 can understand and answer basic trivia questions, and impressively mimic various writing styles, but it fails at basic arithmetic. PaLM can do basic arithmetic much better and explain Jokes. Dall-E 2 (specialized on image generation) has 3.5B parameters for the image generation alone and it uses a 15B language model to read in text (a version of GPT-3).