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Are there people genuinely concerned about slurs against autocomplete computer programs?

• marcusb 1y ago
  Apparently. See, for example, https://www.salon.com/2025/08/19/is-clanker-a-slur-anti-robot-jokes-accused-of-being-thinly-veiled-racism/ https://www.salon.com/2025/08/19/is-clanker-a-slur-anti-robo...
• MangoToupe 1y ago
  Yes. I find it disturbing that you'd rather pretend to be racist than be mad at actual humans who deserve it.
  • akimbostrawman 1y ago
    Machines aren't a race. If anything its speciest.
    • jdiff 1y ago
      Machines also aren't a species.
• Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  Given people say please and thank you to voice assistants, sure. Or given that a subset of "rationalists" like Musk are afraid that the Machine God is inevitable and will kill those that didn't help make the Machine God a reality / elevate those that did, also sure. See "Roko's Basilisk"