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Ja just ignore the obvious point of mistakenly being impolite to a person, eh?
by Jenk 5y ago
Ja just ignore the obvious point of mistakenly being impolite to a person, eh?
- Dylan16807 5y agoHow's that obvious? And does the rule of "be polite if it might be a person" not work? Also it's pretty normal to phrase things less politely to close acquaintances a lot of the time, and that's not being a dick either. "Be polite all the time" is overkill.
- Jenk 5y ago> How's that obvious? > Just teach them to say please to Alexa et Al. Much easier and generally better to be polite when you don't need to be, than to be impolite when you're supposed to be, by mistake.
- noduerme 5y agoWhat's even better is to be able to differentiate between people and computers.
- Jenk 5y agoWhich is orthoganol to the point, anyway.
- anoncake 5y agoNo, it isn't. By teaching children to treat machines like people, you teach them they are like people.
- Jenk 5y agoI'm not teaching them to treat machines like people, I'm teaching them to be polite at every opportunity to be polite. Jesus wept at how contrived you are making this.
- anoncake 5y agoTalking to a machine is not an opportunity to be polite because you cannot actually be polite to a machine. The point of being polite is to be respectful of other's feelings. Machines have none. The only thing you can do is mimic politeness by inserting filler words like "please" and "thanks" at the appropriate, but ultimately arbitrary, times. Which isn't the right lesson to teach either.
- Jenk 5y ago> Talking to a machine is not an opportunity to be polite because you cannot actually be polite to a machine. Utter nonsense.
- anoncake 5y agoI, too, like selectively quoting claims while omitting the arguments behind them so I can dismiss them more easily.
- Jenk 5y agoYes we're all aware of that given I explained right from the start that the entire purpose of being polite to machines is to be polite always, such that one is less likely to be impolite when it actually matters. So whether or not machines are receptive of your politeness ort not use utterly and wholly immaterial to the argument. But don't let that get in the way of your little "victory" eh?
- noduerme 5y agoI started off thinking this writer was being willfully dense and trolling, but now I'm pretty sure they just can't grasp the concept. At the end of the day, it's a bit like arguing with Alexa =D