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Copilot stops working on gender related subjects (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. And if you prefix transactional data as trans_ Copilot will refuse to help you. ๐Ÿ˜‘

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...3 weeks ago I am bumping this discussion just to add a voice - the hospital I work at is attempting to harmonize how old and new systems store things like sex and gender identity in an effort to model the social complexities of the topic in our database as health outcomes have been proven to be demonstrably better when doctor's honors a patient's preferred name and gender expression

This may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, under the current administration.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, or someone will die because lab result baselines that are dependent on sex get fucked up.

Politics need to stay the fuck out of medicine. Having people try and do a political dance around lab science is a recipe for disaster.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don't disagree, and at the same time, this is where we are. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

US horseshoe reality. The right is anti vaccines the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine. I feel bad for normal people living in the US. It's like common sense and pragmatism was bred out of the gene pool.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine

lolwut

Accepting that gender is a social construct has literally nothing to do with biology. I promise you that even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex means.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex mean.

In two words: Binary; Immutable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

What value is there you knowing my expression of ARHGAP1? What about TP53BP1?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Who's anti-biology, again? ๐Ÿ™„