> I guess I am not alone in wondering how different the Middle East might have been had it not been for the seismic influence of Al-Ghazali, that revered scholar of Sunni thought, who in the 12th century argued that science is not a liberator but a threat to the word of God and a danger to the clerics, who had every incentive to thwart the thirst for knowledge to maintain their power and privileges. “Innovator” was not regarded as a term of praise but, as the scholar Toby Huff has put it, “a term for a heretic and non-believer, subject to death”.
And on the status of innovator. The author is equivocating, the negative term innovator is applied to people who innovate in religious matter, ie: altering the religion. Not referring to people who advance knowledge of the "worldly sciences".
Philosophers have long pointed out the missing feature with Science/Rationalism.
And that is when faced with randomness, unpredictability and lack of control, in general, a retreat takes place.
"There is no solution in the book/there is no time/there are no resources/it's not my fault/everyone else has to do x y z/don't hold me responsible for that persons suffering".
Basically any time a problem doesn't have a solution or a "elegant" solution, do a poll on how many scientists/innovators/business leaders/engineers will avoid it or not take responsibility for orchestrating an organized response to hold the space, until a solution is found. Its not in their training. So the majority just retreat. Into their work. "Doing" science/tech provides a very easy path to detachment. And then that detachment gets defended in all kinds of misguided ways, causing more confusion and misunderstandings as can be seen in this specific debate. But it applies in all debates.
Religious systems are much older and they have learnt to occupy the space when things get unpredictable. They will be there when people get cancer holding hands. They will offer rituals and prayer. They will be there praying with soldiers about to enter the battlefield and die. They will be there after they die. They will show up when people have health issues/financial issues/relationship issues. Do they fix all the problems? No. But all problems can't be fixed.
Showing up and holding the space and having something to offer and doing it in an organized and institutional way until a solution is available is what is missing.
All religious systems, not just the Abrahamic ones, people are trained for years to not run away from suffering but hold ground and have something to offer. Its not easy and can't be done without training.
Very few Fred Rodgers are produced by science and engineering institutions.
What is produced instead is mockery of religious systems, the uneducated, the misguided, the ignorant. And it naturally creates more issues.
Not exactly in the same way, as Apple nerfed adblocking a few years ago. Works fine for most sites, but good luck blocking the more aggressive methods.
The Graphene team has seemingly partnered with an OEM, who is releasing binary security patches for them already (with source code available after embargo lifts). Hardware does not seem too far away at this point either.
This model did suspiciously well on the pelican test. Simon has mentioned something along the lines of AI companies cheating his benchmark, and using other random absurd prompts to thwart it.
Dedicated image generation models like this one and Midjourney and DALL-E and Nano Banana and Stable Diffusion have all been able to generate really good pelicans riding bicycles for a couple of years now, but only as JPG/PNG/WEBP raster images.
The real pelican test is about if a text producing model can spit out SVG code that renders a good vector illustration, which is a much harder (and sillier) task.
So what are the implications of having my KeePassXC database open while playing a game that utilizes one of these invasive anticheats? Every time I do it I feel uneasy, but nothing bad has happened yet.
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 is a good choice ('qwen3-coder:30b' when you use ollama). I have also had good experiences with https://mistral.ai/news/devstral (built under a collaboration between Mistral AI and All Hands AI)
DeepSeek Coder 33B or Llama 3 70B with GGUF quantization (Q4_K_M) would be optimal for your specs, with Mistral Large 2 providing the best balance of performance and resource usage.
Is it possible to know if you are on the app without anyone of your female relatives or friends having to submit their biometrics to a company who has had one of the worst breaches ever?
If someone gets verified, how are they constrained in the data they can see? By selected location, GPS, or checking a name manually? Could a female lawyer or service provider set themselves up to be a bulk checking service somehow?
I have not seen anyone mention _any_ constraints regarding geographic location or proximity to the man in question. How would your random travel fling be able to report her experience from across the globe?
This quote has two parts, both of which are wrong and sensationalized. About al Ghazali being anti science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjSXJSt7KI
And on the status of innovator. The author is equivocating, the negative term innovator is applied to people who innovate in religious matter, ie: altering the religion. Not referring to people who advance knowledge of the "worldly sciences".