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Perhaps it’s a bit like asking someone to coffee after smashing a brick through their window, but I hope I have demonstrated enough sincerity so far as to not be credibly accused of being a troll.
Have you been using text to speech? None of this on my side at least involves tongues or speaking. Yes I know it’s a turn of phrase, but it’s a bad one. With a text forum you can reread, edit, think about what you are saying much more easily than real life speech. I legitimately don’t think they are comparable in behavioral or social terms, and there are social phenomenon that happen online or in writing that don’t in other areas of life.
That’s an interesting thought, but no, I have not, and I did indeed just use the term metaphorically. Yes, I am aware that this isn’t realtime communication and I can in fact take the time to try and edit each comment to complete perfection, but I find that more often than not, when doing so, I end up spending too much time getting lost in the weeds and ultimately never sending it because there’s always more to say or a better way to say it.
At some point, you either have to decide that what you have is good enough (and be prepared to deal with the consequences in case it wasn’t), or you’ll end up with analysis paralysis. I have a lot of experience with the latter, so I’m simply choosing the former more often because that gives me the opportunity to practice a skill that needs improving.
You also haven’t just said one offensive thing, when pressed you kept saying offensive things. It’s also not just that they are offensive either, it’s that they seem to be based on misinformation and you haven’t given any evidence for them either.
Again, I apologize for that, but reactive behavior can be difficult to control, as I’m sure you are aware of. Unfortunately I cannot promise to never say anything offensive without shutting down completely, the best I can do is try to work twice as hard on demonstrating earnesty and goodwill.
Also abuse you? Calling someone a bigot isn’t abuse. Pushing you down the stairs would be abuse. Calling you racial slurs would be abuse. Psychological manipulation would be abuse. I am not trying to do any of those here. If anything you are unintentionally abusing me.
If making a comparison between autism and AI is abuse in your book, I don’t see how calling someone a bigot isn’t. I may have unintentionally said something bigoted, but that doesn’t mean that bigotry is all there is to me. It’s dehumanizing in the same way, especially since I immediately offered a correction and an apology.
If you want to take this to DMs that’s fine by me. While I don’t necessarily respect this forum (I mean it’s titled “Fuck AI” for goodness sake), I do understand not wanting to waste other people’s time and that this conversation is probably no longer relevant to this forum.
Let’s keep it public for now, for the sake of accountability. Also, while I agree that the chance is small that anyone else here is actually interested in following this discourse, it’s certainly not zero. It used to be one of my favorite things about the Internet when I was younger to stumble on interesting rabbit holes like this one, and I have some fond memories of reading long essays, blog posts, or discourses about topics that I only had a superficial interest in, but that ended up completely changing my perspective on things, and I hope to achieve something similar here.
(Looks like I hit the character limit for responses, continuing here from the previous comment)
Perhaps it’s a bit like asking someone to coffee after smashing a brick through their window, but I hope I have demonstrated enough sincerity so far as to not be credibly accused of being a troll.
That’s an interesting thought, but no, I have not, and I did indeed just use the term metaphorically. Yes, I am aware that this isn’t realtime communication and I can in fact take the time to try and edit each comment to complete perfection, but I find that more often than not, when doing so, I end up spending too much time getting lost in the weeds and ultimately never sending it because there’s always more to say or a better way to say it.
At some point, you either have to decide that what you have is good enough (and be prepared to deal with the consequences in case it wasn’t), or you’ll end up with analysis paralysis. I have a lot of experience with the latter, so I’m simply choosing the former more often because that gives me the opportunity to practice a skill that needs improving.
Again, I apologize for that, but reactive behavior can be difficult to control, as I’m sure you are aware of. Unfortunately I cannot promise to never say anything offensive without shutting down completely, the best I can do is try to work twice as hard on demonstrating earnesty and goodwill.
If making a comparison between autism and AI is abuse in your book, I don’t see how calling someone a bigot isn’t. I may have unintentionally said something bigoted, but that doesn’t mean that bigotry is all there is to me. It’s dehumanizing in the same way, especially since I immediately offered a correction and an apology.
Let’s keep it public for now, for the sake of accountability. Also, while I agree that the chance is small that anyone else here is actually interested in following this discourse, it’s certainly not zero. It used to be one of my favorite things about the Internet when I was younger to stumble on interesting rabbit holes like this one, and I have some fond memories of reading long essays, blog posts, or discourses about topics that I only had a superficial interest in, but that ended up completely changing my perspective on things, and I hope to achieve something similar here.