Oh, I'm sure they'll patch anything that gets exposed, absolutely. But that's just it - there are already several examples of people using AI to do non-brand-friendly stuff, but all the developers have to do is go "whoops, patched" and everyone's fine. They have no need to go out of their way to pay people to catch these issues early; they can just wait until a PR issue happens, patch whatever caused it, and move on.

Correct, which is why I didn't use the word "trisomy" when referring to the translocation case. My point is that, even in that situation, the condition is caused by the presence of the translocated piece of chromosome 21 in addition to 2 normal copies. It's not referred to as a trisomy, as many times only part of the entire chromosome is translocated, but the functional cause of the condition is the same. So, when writing a paper for the general population, it's not a stretch to call Down Syndrome and Trisomy 21 synonymous.

I'd be worried that I couldn't change back. I'd choose flight, since none of the other dragon stuff feels too useful besides just being strong.

You're absolutely right - ultimately, true scientific method is impossible for humans, since we all have biases, but striving for perfection is how we get as close as we can to it.

As you mentioned, scientific progress can be made even with biased data from people who have let religion and science intermingle, but as others have shown in this thread, it often leads to a slow process of chipping away at society's default answer of "God did it" little by little over time, which has significantly delayed scientific progress.

Even just 100 years ago this man likely wouldn't have lost his job for making a claim without data that sin has directly impacted human health, and I see the fact that it's now an unacceptable claim to be an indication that science as a whole is becoming less biased, in part due to its further separation from religion.

My point is that religious scientists are required to walk a very fine line to do both, because every interaction a human has with the world is a form of measurement.

Looking at a blue sky is a measurement, watching a child grow up is a measurement, smelling a flower is a measurement; these things are science, and for a religious scientist to be unbiased, they cannot allow any question of why or how they exist to be answered with "God." So, the question becomes: "What's left for a religious scientist to truly believe in, and not measure?" and the answer is that only the immeasurable can be left up to faith - the idea of an afterlife, the idea of a creator who kicked off the phenomenon of "reality" itself, and other such immeasurable things can be left up to faith, but nothing else.

Anything that can be answered by looking closer at existence itself cannot - in any way - be answered scientifically with anything other than real data. What this man did was show that he had allowed the measurable to be defined by the immeasurable in his work, and thus lost his legitimacy as a scientist.

You're really desperate to find an argument I'm not making. Again, people can be religious. Scientists can be religious. However, if a scientist is religious they need to make very sure that their religion - that they believe in spite of no data, and is thus nothing more than an opinion - does not affect their science, which is required to be based on measurable data alone.

What this man did was make a scientific presentation based on his beliefs - his opinions - which were not based on measurements, and were thus unscientific. That was what crossed the line. I will always be wary of a religious scientist because I cannot determine whether their measurements are unaffected by the biases their religion gives them, but I can never truly dismiss their measurements, because I cannot be sure they are not legitimate. But when someone openly announces that they believe sin has caused a god to directly influence human genetics, and their claim is not based on any collected data, it shows that they absolutely have allowed their biases to affect the legitimacy of their work. In that instance, any past or present data that that person has collected will need to be re-measured by someone who has not shown to have allowed their biases to influence their work.

Something immeasurable is the antithesis to science, which is the act of measuring. If that thing later becomes measurable, it stops being the antithesis to science, because that immeasurability is no longer present. Insofar that we cannot know whether or not religion exists, it will continue to be something immeasurable, and will be antithetical to science. If someone wants to support both, they need to make absolutely sure that they are entirely compartmentalized, so that if the day comes that religion is either confirmed or denounced, it will not affect their work.

Watson and Crick were fine scientists, but their discovery of the double helix structure was largely due to them looking at Rosalind Franklin's unpublished data and completely omitting her name from their announcement of its discovery. They were certainly not shining examples of scientific excellence or integrity, and I consider most geneticists I know to be well beyond their capabilities.

He based his opinions on real data, but not all of the available real data. Darwinism and eugenics commonly point to certain 'bad genes" that they claim are present in the population, leading to such things as increased criminal activity and laziness. Real studies on these traits, however, find no familial correlation when accounting for upbringing; essentially, if you separate a child of a criminal from the life of a criminal, they're no more likely to become a criminal than anyone else. Hitler only focused on studies that fail to account for the socioeconomic effect that children of criminals tend to have fewer options, and are thus more likely to become criminals themselves. This is an example of one of the most common ways that scientific results can be corrupted - by the inclusion of only data that fits a preestablished opinion, and excluding data that doesn't.

Hitler also applied his cherry-picked data to certain scenarios, but not others. He claimed that he would create a future "utopia" by forcing subsequent generations to only carry desirable genes, but didn't talk at all about the fact that doing so creates a current dystopia, the horrors of which completely outweighing any potential benefit. Yes, selective breeding and/or culling of undesirable traits from the gene pool is an effective way to create a creature with certain characteristics - it's something we see often with breeding dogs and crops - but it's extremely unethical to apply this reasoning to humans, whose lives most would say have inherent worth outside of their genetics. It's also something we're starting to realize is unethical to do to animals - an example of how new data and new understanding of current data change our outlook on the world over time.

Ultimately, impartial assessment of all available data should never bring you to the same conclusion as Hitler.

It's fine to have opinions that you hold close even if they're not entirely based in observable fact - for example, I understand that the notion of an afterlife brings a lot of people a sense of comfort that they may very much need in their life. The issue is when people take those opinions and apply them to something that extends far beyond their own life, such as this example of someone trying to push their opinion about god's influence on genetics onto the scientific community at large.

If he had any real data at all to base it on, it'd at least be something to think about, but it's nothing but his own interpretation of religious teachings that themselves aren't based on any data we know of or currently have access to. If it helps him to think that, he can go ahead - I'd still worry about the effects it'd inadvertently have on the required impartiality of his work, but without the data to back those worries up, I'd have no reason to doubt him - but what he did was a step too far.

Measurement is the closest we're able to get to the truth. It's something that anyone can independently observe and achieve exactly the same result. It's not really the truth - we're never really able to achieve that - but it's at least something we know exists beyond ourselves and our fallible tendency to simply take what someone else says is true as the truth.

I mean, it's not like they're going to bribe the government into forcing them to pay greater taxes.

Best game of all time. I play it every year.