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Wow, so much talk about how "shit" and "fuck" can be used unoffensively but almost no talk about how lots of "polite" speech without slurs can be incredibly off
by martin-t 5y ago
Wow, so much talk about how "shit" and "fuck" can be used unoffensively but almost no talk about how lots of "polite" speech without slurs can be incredibly offensive. For example lying is toxic and no ML model has a chance of detecting it (without understanding of the real world, which is pretty far away if achievable at all).
For fucks sake, I saw a video of a crowd cheering after a guy imitated one of Hitler's speeches. There wasn't a single "shit" or "fuck" in it but it contained "truth doesn't matter, only victory". That's offensive as fuck but the people didn't see anything wrong with it.
- Chris2048 5y ago> it contained "truth doesn't matter, only victory". That's offensive as fuck Only in the context of knowing it came from Hitler. Without that information it isn't more than a strong opinion - because it isn't explicitly linked to murder/genocide.
- martin-t 5y ago"truth doesn't matter, only victory" is offensive in any political context. It doesn't matter if somebody is lying about genocide or bribes or abusing position to trade favors. One is worse than the other but it's still lying at a level that affects a whole country and that is intolerable.