Oh, I knew what your puritanical thinking was from the beginning. It just didn't relate to the point I was trying to make - which is why I was trying to gently correct you. As it seems you are uninterested in engaging with the actual conversation at hand though, I will only tell you: have a good day.
It has nothing to do with self-mastery and dopamine. People who are healthy tend to masturbate. People who are feeling poorly are less likely to masturbate, and feeling poorly means you have a health issue. People with health issues are more likely to die than people without health issues. The causation is reversed. Masturbation does not cause a longer lifespan. A short lifespan due to health issues causes less masturbation.
This is a 'correlation is not causation'-ass situation here. People who aren't feeling well enough to wank at least twice a week are far more likely to kick the bucket.
That's because it doesn't really 'know' things in the same way you and I do. It's much more like having a gut reaction to something and then spitting it out as truth; LLMs don't really have the capability to ruminate about something. The one pass through their neural network is all they get unless it's a 'reasoning' model that then has multiple passes as it generates an approximation of train-of-thought - but even then, its output is still a series of approximations.
When its training data had something resembling corrections in it, the most likely text that came afterwards was 'oh you're right, let me fix that' - so that's what the LLM outputs. That's all there is to it.
Because just giving them money, no strings attached, is proven to be more effective AND more efficient in both money and manpower. Every single time it's studied.
The argument 'But what if someone abuses it?' always falls flat when countered by 'What if people are unjustly denied support they need because of the restrictions?' Because the first will always happen, no matter what, and the second only happens if you deny support. One person 'unfairly' wasting money on meth would be a more than fair price to pay for one more person getting what they need to survive, and if you believe otherwise... I don't know what to tell you. Maybe go grow some human empathy.
Besides, tax money is wasted WAY more by the rich than by the poor.
Oh, there's plenty of examples on mobile app stores. Since it costs to get your app on it, there's a natural barrier to entry for FOSS - so the people who do put it up sometimes charge for it despite the source being readily available.
It's pistol-sized, pistol-shaped, and it fires projectiles. It's effectively a gun. The projectiles just happen to be self-propelled instead of having a casing with gunpowder.
I think maybe we're talking about a different Jon Stewart, because the one I know hasn't shied away from criticizing Israel.