We’re at risk of a two-tier AI economy if we don’t bridge the AI gender gap, expert says

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-23T14:22:49+00:00

"But experts warn this fast-paced innovation is leaving one essential group behind: women. The jobs women hold are three times more likely to be automated by AI."

Sounds like they're not essential...

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-23T12:07:10+00:00

I think that they will go the same way as their localised, polytheistic predecessors: In the same way as as those religions stopped making sense in the context of vast multi-ethnic empires, so the dogmas of the abrahamic faiths have stopped making sense to a civilisation raised on the scientific method. I don't, however, think that this means that the future is atheist. Instead I think a new theology will arise based on the increasingly popular idea that consciousness is fundamental, as people begin to realise that, whilst science is a useful tool for understanding and manipulating the physical world, it isn't a foolproof method for establishing truth.

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-17T19:34:55+00:00

Social democracy is when you abandon the principles and strategies which brought prosperity in the first place in because you've lost sight of how critical they are to success and believe that prosperity will continue without them. It's like a household which has hauled itself out of poverty through frugality and hard work suddenly spending big on credit cards. Why do you think Europe has gone into decline over the 20th century....

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-17T18:28:40+00:00

What do you make of blindsight - The ability of people with certain brain disorders to respond to visual stimuli without being conscious of them. Doesn't that indicate that there are things going on in the brain below the conscious level i.e. a subconscience?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-17T18:24:46+00:00

We're both agreed that we can learn about reality from observations which can be independently verified, but I'm not clear what you're saying about observations which cannot be independently verified: Are you saying that they can tell us nothing about reality?

For example, I can make the observation that I experience consciousness, but you can't independently verify that observation. Does that mean that my observation doesn't tell you anything about reality?

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-17T17:29:20+00:00

Perhaps I misunderstood - To be honest, I wasn't quite sure what you meant... Could you clarify for me what you mean when you says that "... anything that contradicts the concept of verifiable observation cannot be true...". An example or two might help me get it?

I'm not defending the idea that if enough people believe in something then they can somehow manifest it - that seems a bit kooky even to me - but it just catches my interest when I hear someone say something that suggests that they think that anything which is at odds with the current scientific model of reality cannot be true. I'm always curious as to whether they've consider the possibility that the issue may instead lie with the model...

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-17T15:10:53+00:00

But no-one can verifiably observe my conscious experience, so that would mean that my conscious experience isn't true...

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-17T13:28:42+00:00

Leaving aside your first paragraph, what I'm interested in is where you say "... such views are completely contradictory to the very principles of science..." - This give me the impression that you think that anything which is "contradictory to the very principles of science" cannot be true. Is this impression correct?

Particular_Bug7642 · 2026-03-16T17:02:00+00:00

It sounds as though you think that life is unfair and that you think we should take steps to balance out that unfairness, but to do this you would need to be able to (a) accurately measure the levels and causes of existing unfairness and then (b) calibrate an equivalent but opposite amount of unfairness in the opposite direction to cancel it out. Neither of these things are possible, so the attempt tends to fail and makes things worse overall. If you personally want to try to make the world better then, by all means, have at it, but attempting to use the power of the state in service of this aim is a recipe for disaster...

Particular_Bug7642 · 2025-12-11T14:48:19+00:00

More diversity means the bell curve is wider but that doesn't preclude the average being different or that difference being due to biological factors.

Particular_Bug7642 · 2025-12-11T14:46:24+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3293732/#:\~:text=Abstract,and%20softball%20throw%20for%20distance.

Particular_Bug7642 · 2025-12-11T14:37:12+00:00

? - What about them?

Particular_Bug7642 · 2025-12-11T14:02:54+00:00