This definitely reminds me of when they pulled ddate from the the util-linux package. Some dude was offended. It was one of the things that, for me, made linux fun and unique. I can still install it and use it, and I do most days, but it was so cool that it was just there.
For most of its recorded usage, "libertarian" meant anarchist, "liberal" meant "I believe that people should have rights," and "conservative" meant "I like tradition" (whatever's going on now is sure as shit not traditional).
Self-aware AI is science fiction, and science fiction is fiction.
For real. We got chatbots and text prediction. The best we can do is a real big computer that's good at trivia. Other than that it's just basic algorithms that inherit our biases and bad habits without any of the upsides of humanity, like understanding exceptions to rules or letting a human get paid to do a slightly less shitty job.
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This definitely reminds me of when they pulled ddate from the the util-linux package. Some dude was offended. It was one of the things that, for me, made linux fun and unique. I can still install it and use it, and I do most days, but it was so cool that it was just there.
For most of its recorded usage, "libertarian" meant anarchist, "liberal" meant "I believe that people should have rights," and "conservative" meant "I like tradition" (whatever's going on now is sure as shit not traditional).
Self-aware AI is science fiction, and science fiction is fiction.
For real. We got chatbots and text prediction. The best we can do is a real big computer that's good at trivia. Other than that it's just basic algorithms that inherit our biases and bad habits without any of the upsides of humanity, like understanding exceptions to rules or letting a human get paid to do a slightly less shitty job.