Jesus

I agree that it’s awkward and it creates problems in some scenarios. I’m not sure it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s an understandable (over) correction for some pretty heinous behaviour.

I think it’s also equally pretty weird to just dismiss a facet of someone’s humanity.

At work? I think it’s preferable to limit our interactions to work related stuff.

Outside of work, I’m ambivalent. We associate physical features, names, and accents with cultures. But those don’t always line up to significant differences in someone’s personality.

In the last few decades we’ve noticed that we’ve been treating each other like shit. We’ve used race, skin colour, ethnicity, weight, etc to insult others and reduce their social standing.

We’re trying to fix that. As such, calling out those specific differences is frowned on, even if we aren’t using them negatively.

Is this inconvenient? Yes. It’s pretty easy to point out the only black/fat/disabled person in a work place. But we’re really trying to avoid any conversations that could turn into insults or attacks.

So we now have an unwritten social rule that we avoid using those identifiers when talking about individuals.

Many of my fellow Canadians fell for that shit, and they have free access to doctors.

(Not all of them, because our healthcare system is weirdly understaffed, but many of them)

The author’s barely disguised fetish preconceived notion

Sign me up.

Computer needs practice to get program right.

A delightful character arc.

Or the AI on shopping websites saying “I’d recommend this model…”

We don’t have a pronoun for “this non-human unit”. LLMs are marketed as conversational, so they need to conform to the limitations of English.

One could argue that “we” or “one” would be more appropriate, but that would sound stilted in many contexts.

I’d prefer linguistic markers to distinguish between people and machines, but we haven’t gotten there yet.

SHE’S THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

So it wasn’t porn?

* Not known to cause gonorrhea

I really think removing downvotes or requiring the downvoter to explain the downvote would make communities better.

Lemmynsfw solved this by disabling downvotes. I don’t think memes were a problem there.

An alternative is strong moderation to keep off-topic comments and posts out.

Pretty much this. We have strong beliefs. Strong enough to leave a popular, functional platform for ideological reasons.

YouTube is popular because it gives creators a way to get paid. So a new service would need to offer some of that.

I always enjoy images projected onto the offenders buildings.