Reminder that the Russians primarily targeted black americans to agitate us over police brutality, and that every single media piece that gives more than 3 example ads without showing a single one target black americans is, with high probability (a statistician can formalize this), peddling an agenda. "White working class voters" were never the primary target and they targeted them less as the campaign went on.
> I’ve never really understood what “homoiconic” is supposed to mean.
The author gives a great candidate definition but doesn’t want us to call it homoiconicity for some reason
> What’s this intermediate syntax tree? It’s an almost entirely superficial understanding of your program: it basically does paren-matching to create a tree representing the surface nesting structure of the text. This is nowhere near an AST, but it’s just enough for the macro expansion system to do its job.
I was taught that macro expansion is just another AST transformation, and homoiconicity makes this easy because the syntax tree can be transformed without understanding the grammar.
But I guess this whole article is an exercise in un-defining things.
If that’s your worst contrived scenario then you’ve only convinced me that this is a good idea. All technology can be used for good and evil, things will get more extreme but continue towards net positive. Your evil scenario is outweighed by the global benefits of medical research.
Next time, just jump straight to saying [oppressive fascist superpower] and [minority ethnic group originating in and culturally affiliated with a small Middle Eastern nation]. We’re still more sensitive to that one.
Iceland has almost completely eliminated Down's Syndrome using genetic screening, and that's wonderful. Their population will be happier and healthier because of it. You're erecting a strawman by suggesting a policy would be implemented based on weak correlations.
Iceland has reduced the incidence of Down's syndrome by screening and terminating Down's pregnancies, not by medically resolving the underlying chromosomal nondisjunction. The role that social pressure plays in this process in unclear: the founder of DeCODE genetics has speculated that "heavy-handed genetic counseling" may be influencing decisions.
This is precisely the scenario that anti-eugenicists warn about, especially for more complex genetic disorders with a spectrum of potential phenotypes and possible pleiotropic effects. And for the community of non-terminated disorder carriers, who may receive less social support - and less research into medical treatments for their disorder - as a result.
Genetic screening has many great potential benefits, but the Iceland Down's example is not their best showcase.
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