Religion relies on assumptions that cannot be proven physically, secularism just avoids those assumptions (I say this as a Christian who finds secular biblical scholarship fascinating and helpful).
Secular humanism has been accepted as a religion for First amendment purposes.
Non theistic Buddhism is still considered a religion.
Worldview might be a better term for us to use in understanding people's first amendment rights. And also the idea that there is no neutral worldview. E.g. "secularism" is directly hostile to many religious viewpoints, and to the degree that its proponents use it to oppose religion, secularism becomes a religion/worldview/belief system.
That's what you'd expect. But we don't know for sure why GPT4.1 chooses 69 only a quarter as often as a random dice roll would. And we don't know if this quirk is reverted by 'uncensoring' a trained model
Maybe, but I don't use it and nobody I know uses it. It's a very politically divisive platform, and users without an account can't post on there.
There are plenty of reasons not to use X, but that's not what's in contention. X.com was the _only_ platform they shared this information on.
It bears repeating: Github decided not to use email, which every GitHub customer has, and Github chose not to use their sites, and GitHub chose not to use their otherwise active BlueSky.
The git CLI in notoriously bad. Nobody would need tools like https://frostming.github.io/legit/ if the git CLI would be any good. Also we would not need websites like https://ohshitgit.com/ Look at the commands: Even Claude Opus 4.7 struggles with that.
The alternative would be to ruin a part of the life of shitload of students, you find it better? It's not a dumb move at all, most companies pay ransom because the alternative is worse.
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