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It's pretty funny. If we accept your assumptions, we can conclude that most programmers in the far future will be AIs. No idea if those AIs will be male or fema
by cousin_it 17y ago
It's pretty funny. If we accept your assumptions, we can conclude that most programmers in the far future will be AIs. No idea if those AIs will be male or female; more wild speculation is always welcome.
- amichail 17y agoWhat if the AI were like a human child in intelligence? In that case, it would not be capable of teaching/programming at a high level of sophistication.
- cousin_it 17y agoThat's a pretty scary mental image: a caring woman teaches a tender childlike AI for its boring future job as an ERP system. Perhaps we should rethink the plan.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think I'm beginning to see where your bias sits. It would appear that in your mind the people that take care of children are 'all women' and that therefore a 'young ai' will be dealt with exclusively by women until they are old enough to go into the real world. May I ask you what your cultural background is ?
- amichail 17y agoMay I ask you what your cultural background is ? No.
- jacquesm 17y agoFair enough ;)
- calambrac 17y agoProbably smart, you wouldn't want anyone making assumptions about you based on prejudicial stereotypes. Ahem.
- jacquesm 17y agoI found the remarks to be so far off the beaten path that I was wondering if culture might be a factor here. Some things that seem strange to me might make perfect sense to someone with a background sufficiently different from mine. Some remote family member of mine for instance firmly believed (deceased) that women 'have their place', and with that he definitely didn't mean university. I found that a pretty bizarre statement (even as a kid) but in light of his particular cultural background I find it easier to accept that that was his point of view.
- khafra 17y ago[personal information redacted] edit replacement: amichail's posted his own information fairly prominently; I think his refusal to explicitly state his cultural background was rhetorical. I consider a psuedonym like "cousin_it" to be private, but a real name like "jaquesm" or "amichail" a public statement of identity. end edit replacement. I was curious enough to look it up because he posted the exact same comments on reddit a day or so ago.
- stse 17y agoHm, maybe we need privacy guidelines at HN. Let people disclose information on their own terms.
- cousin_it 17y agoI join stse in saying that the stalking was uncalled for: amichail had clearly indicated his desire for privacy by the time you made this comment. I'd also like the people who upvoted khafra to +5 to provide some sort of explanation, because this behavior seems to me more actively harmful than amichail's purported sexist remarks. I often express opinions that people may not like; am I to take that people will cyber-stalk me for that? Do you want HN to become this kind of place? Edit: khafra, thanks a lot for editing the post. This reaffirms my faith that HN is an exceptionally good online community.
- jacquesm 17y agoI'm off several minds on this: 1) if you make remarks online you always have to remember that you are speaking 'in public' and that anybody that wants to know more about you probably can and will. 2) that the timing of the disclosure was less than elegant to put it mildly, he already said 'no', that should have been enough (it was for me). 3) that the same thing happening on reddit several days ago apparently is what drove Khafra to wonder just like I did if this might be a cultural thing. If someone makes a point out of continuously harping on a very controversial opinion then that will make people curious about you. Still, point (2) holds strong and that should not have been done. I don't know if Khafra can still remove the post but if I were him I would do so.