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I’m replying to a comment claiming several states have the age of consent set at 14. Your reply makes zero sense.

You are still not addressing the difference between “a portion of individuals will be capable of having a viable pregnancy at this age” with “adulthood”.

So as mentioned earlier, some nine year olds have survived pregnancy, especially in the last few decades. The mortality rate is absurd, and pretty much all neurological hallmarks of adulthood are nowhere near complete… but they do fit your definition perfectly. They can conceive healthy offspring.

Would you call them adults? Would you lower the age of consent to 9? Assuming in good faith your answer will be “no” then you must, by definition, introduce other conditional aspects to “adulthood” that go beyond the ability to sustain pregnancy, which was my point.

Could you elaborate?

Sure, but only if you’re actually interested in an honest discussion about the topic. If the goal is discussing US states or internal US politics and similar content, I’m out.

To begin with, sexual maturity is not synced across all populations nor individuals within a population. You’ll certainly be aware of girls starting menstruation at nine years old, yet their cousins at sixteen. There has been a trend towards early puberty, but our species has existed for long before that.

It’s also important to note that the start of menstruation and puberty does not mean the start of viable reproductive health. Sure, you can find many examples of girls becoming pregnant and having a child at 14… But if you look at mortality rates for these pregnancies, they’re higher than the expected average for adult pregnancies.

Even with all of that taken into account, why exactly are you constructing “capable of having a child” as the definition of “no longer a child”? Our development is extremely slow, it’s a key aspect of our species. We take a long time to mature in the womb, we take an absurdly long time to mature as early infants, and we take even more time to become fully grown adults. The fact that young girls might have the necessary apparatus to conceive a child does not imply in any way that they aren’t children themselves - there have been reports of nine year olds having a viable pregnancy, can you argue they are not children?

Your flat denial is an extraordinary claim

Good old “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” is a fantastic quote, but only when it’s applied correctly. No extraordinary claim has been made here.

By human biology, a 14 year old is sexually mature and capable of becoming a parent

That’s incorrect in several different levels.

The terms “child, teen, adolescent, adult” are all social constructs

Partially.

We as a society have drawn arbitrary lines and even changed them over time.

The lines we draw and how we interact the world are curiously incapable of changing biological processes.

Are you really saying 14 states have legalized pedophilia?

Yes. I’m unsure how a State’s law would suddenly change human biology and make a 14 year old not a child.

Some 90’s microwaves actually used some chips to measure humidity and using a little reference table adjust how long certain foods need to cook for, for instance, popcorn can be popped perfectly without burning and almost without leftover kernels if you can measure how much water is being released. The same goes for cooking frozen meats, vegetables, and so on.

But what we get in modern ones instead are horrendous touchscreens, simple timers that never quite match the food they promise to work on, and Wi-Fi.

I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.

I can. Easily.

And don’t let their Like buttons and cookies exist in other websites too

By that metric, you can argue Kasparov isn’t thinking during chess

Kasparov’s thinking fits pretty much all biological definitions of thinking. Which is the entire point.

That entire paragraph is much better at supporting the precise opposite argument. Computers can beat Kasparov at chess, but they’re clearly not thinking when making a move - even if we use the most open biological definitions for thinking.

Apple is significantly behind and arrived late to the whole AI hype, so of course it’s in their absolute best interest to keep showing how LLMs aren’t special or amazingly revolutionary.

They’re not wrong, but the motivation is also pretty clear.

It doesn’t “need” to be anything. It could be a DKMS module that is mandatory for playing a game.

Whether people would like it and use it is a completely different story.

Certainly depends on where you live.

Unlocking a Samsung phone is trivial here.

Absolutely nothing prevents somebody from writing a kernel level anticheat on Linux.

Users would throw a fit, and it would be way easier to bypass, but it certainly could be made.

not generations before

If by “Generations” you mean the literal previous generation that was advertised as backwards compatible and where many of the games won’t receive specific patches precisely because running natively and better was one of the key features of the new console… Sure, I guess.

with consoles, it’s 100% of the time

Several Switch 1 games are facing issues on Switch 2, including broken textures, crashes and weird behavior. This whole “consoles are 100%!” idea has been dead since the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 generation.

I couldn’t give less of a fuck about any company or their “projects”, selling a product is not a mission to empower users and help the world or some bullshit like that.

The Nintendo 3DS is got three separate CPUs just to guarantee perfect backwards compatibility, and this shit console can’t work with a pretty much identical architecture from a few years ago?

What’s even the point of buying a console over a PC if there are caveats to the software that will work? The entire point of a console is that if a game exists for it, it can run it. Not “1.07% of them boot but can’t be played!”

People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver’s license in many parts of the world

The promise was that people would literally stop going to real life music shows to watch them on Second Life, buying fake cans of sponsored Coca-Cola and inviting friends to one night stands on their digital flats. Going on for 20 years is not the norm, but not unusual either - RuneScape is older and my neighbors have no idea what it is.

The reality is that we forgot about the game in less than two years and the surviving community is small, even if they pay a lot.

That’s exactly what’s going to happen to AI agents promising to replace an entire department or the creative team in a studio.