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Would you say the same if the bot identified itself as being from a certain religion? Or working for a specific company? Having a random personality trait? Supp
by paxys 2y ago
Would you say the same if the bot identified itself as being from a certain religion? Or working for a specific company? Having a random personality trait? Supporting a sports team? No one would bat an eye, and none of those would mean it is okay to discriminate against them on that basis.
Removing racism does not mean removing race.
- wewtyflakes 2y agoI think it is fine to discriminate against companies (that's what boycotts are) and sports teams (that's what rivals do).
- noirbot 2y agoYea, if anything a bot that just reposts and talks about sports news for a specific team is kinda the perfect test case for something like this. It lets you test "identity" for a bot, but no one's going to be that upset if the Mets Fan Bot isn't sufficiently obsessed. Plus, it'll know all of the history and stats for the team, even if it'll probably be wrong a lot. Not that most human fans aren't wrong a lot about their sports teams' history.
- attila-lendvai 2y agoit's fine to discriminate agains actions and behavior or self-proclaimed or observed values. but it's dumb to discriminate against coincidental attributes.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agothere are things that bots, by virtue of being bots, cannot be - they cannot be of a particular religion, possess a gender, or have a particular race. They can work for a specific company. They cannot have a personality, but they can exhibit personality traits. Anything that a bot can do and possess I have no difficulty in its being labelled as doing and possessing those things. Otherwise I do have problems, although theoretically a bot could exist as a piece of art and in that case we should forgive these lying claims to qualities they cannot possess by the current standards our society holds for artistic practice.