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Please don't use human slurs for computer programs you don't like.
by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Please don't use human slurs for computer programs you don't like.
- daun_gee 2mo ago[dead]
- lukebitts 2mo agoIf it’s so necessary make sure to use your real account next time
- daun_gee 2mo ago[flagged]
- 8note 2mo agoyou can be critical without being abraisive or demeaning about it. a professional opinion includes some professionalism
- inigyou 2mo agoAre we worried about offending the machine?
- wizzwizz4 2mo agoNo, we're worried about contributing to a hostile environment for people who have nothing to do with this complaint. To illustrate: replace the slur with a racial or sexist one, and see how it reads. If you want to insult people, take the time to come up with a relevant insult: don't just fire your gun into the air.
- daun_gee 2mo agoI didn't say anything racist or sexist. I'm mocking stupid people who are sucking up all the air in the room. Fuck these AI retards.
- nozzlegear 2mo agoThere's no need to use slurs.
- daun_gee 2mo agoAI is for retards.
- inigyou 2mo agoIf someone said ChatGPT was a whiny bitch, I'd think them a bit odd, but I wouldn't start complaining about sexism.
- daun_gee 2mo ago[flagged]
- hhh 2mo agoit’s not necessary, you can just say you don’t like it. not everything has to be vulgar
- daun_gee 2mo ago[dead]
- stalfosknight 2mo agoWhy are we defending the feelings of chatbots? Does the word clanker upset you too?
- wizzwizz4 2mo agoIt mildly upsets me, because I think the impulse to denigrate that which we oppose is a harmful one which, if cultivated, we can all too readily turn on people who don't deserve it. But it's not a real slur for real people. (Note that in Star Wars, where many people got this slur from, droids are – or at least, have the potential to be – people, albeit they are usually enslaved, and subject to arbitrary mind wipes.) However, I couldn't care less about the feelings of chatbots. What I do care about is the feelings of the people to whom the slurs were originally directed, and (generally) the kind of culture that this creates. The use of slurs is a symptom, rather than a cause, but complaining about slurs does get people asking the kinds of questions you're asking, which is a positive. I would not have said anything if the word "clanker", alone, had been used. But if you look at GP's other comments, I think you'll see evidence to support my musings about the kind of attitude that the practice of slur use cultivates.
- daun_gee 2mo ago"Retard" is a forbidden curse (read: slur) that holds great power in the English language. I understand the risks of using this sort of language, and yet still I have determined that it is prudent to use the harshest rhetorical weapons that we have available to resist the large AI firms. "Clanker" much less potent, much less powerful. I want an anti-AI slogan that stays in people's minds after they leave this comments section, and I think "AI is for retards" is that slogan.
- wizzwizz4 2mo agoThe literal meaning of the word is "delayed", which seems less descriptive than the words you rejected in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183728. Do you understand why this word is "forbidden"? What's the advantage over a more vulgar word like "fuckwit"?
- lelanthran 2mo ago> Please don't use human slurs for computer programs you don't like. Good point. We should use different slurs for machines than the ones we use for humans :-)