I wasn’t sure until latest vote drop that just happened now, but it’s looking like the magical mail ins are going to somehow heavily favor Nithya Raman, because of course Raman voters are known to specifically vote late, moreso even than Democrats, which will explain how she slowly but surely overtakes Pratt while having absolutely zero organic voter base, and while not taking any votes from Bass.
Only 65% of the vote counted!
Interesting to watch a self-sort happening across various non-tech corners of the internet, where people are moralizing AI use for a wide variety of reasons and essentially opting themselves and their kids out of the next economic paradigm
Bro, let’s stop pretending.
Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.
Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.
Shinto exists only in Japan.
So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?
The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.
That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.
Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.
If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.
The book example doesn't have a pattern because you just give the question and include the answer. If you had said something like: "What's my favorite book? I only like the first book of a trilogy, and prefer popular titles that started as fan fiction."
Then the answer would require fitting constraints and it would require specific cultural context. The reason the extra required context is ok in math and not in literary taste is because the "culture" of math does not meaningfully vary from population to population and does not rest on subjective judgement.
Perhaps someone that came from a culture that uses base-12 would have a legitimate gripe with the problem as written.
The context of it being a test without the opportunity to expound upon whatever answer you might give.
There certainly are other possible answers mathematically. But there is the additional constraint of it being part of an intelligence test. There must be a single correct answer *in that context* and it is trivial for an intelligent person to realize that and assess which answer is expected.