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There was a similar discussion a while back and I can't find the exact comment, but the commenter I'm paraphrasing posed this example: What if database rows ma
by minikites 8y ago
There was a similar discussion a while back and I can't find the exact comment, but the commenter I'm paraphrasing posed this example:
What if database rows marked for deletion were marked with a "Jew" flag and to process the deleted rows you ran a "holocaust' function? Would you be able to compartmentalize those words? Would you insist that people shouldn't be offended? If you think these situations are different, why?
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- tomp 8y agoIt's bad to "exterminate" Jews but not bad to exterminate termites (well, at least in the human value system). The "final solution" to the Jewish question is bad, but the final solution to an exam math problem is good. Same words can mean different things in different contexts. "Master" means someone who rules, gives orders, has people working for him. "Slave" is someone or something that follows master's orders without capacity to resist or deviate from that order (well, that's the idea... we'll see how AI turns out).
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- dang 8y agoPlease don't take an HN thread further into pointless flamewar. This is a classic of that hellish genre.