I don’t think it’s proper to present something as a literal quotation when you have changed its content.
(I saw all those “zir”s and “ze”s and thought “That seems very un-Robin-Hanson-like” and checked, and indeed RH used “he” and “his” throughout. It may well be that it would be better if RH had used gender-neutral pronouns, but as it happens he didn’t, and you shouldn’t “correct” that and still present the resulting modified text as a quotation.)
ah, I definitely agree yes, thank you for pointing that out. it was a quote I took from old notes back when I had a browser extension that would automatically change all pronouns to gender neutral pronouns, and I didn’t know at the time I would share that quote publicly, which is the source of the error. I fixed it.
It could be worse. There was (I guess still is) a famous browser extension that replaces every instance of “cloud” with “butt” as a way of making fun of the fad for doing computing things “in the cloud”. Some people have had … unfortunate experiences with that one.
I don’t think it’s proper to present something as a literal quotation when you have changed its content.
(I saw all those “zir”s and “ze”s and thought “That seems very un-Robin-Hanson-like” and checked, and indeed RH used “he” and “his” throughout. It may well be that it would be better if RH had used gender-neutral pronouns, but as it happens he didn’t, and you shouldn’t “correct” that and still present the resulting modified text as a quotation.)
ah, I definitely agree yes, thank you for pointing that out. it was a quote I took from old notes back when I had a browser extension that would automatically change all pronouns to gender neutral pronouns, and I didn’t know at the time I would share that quote publicly, which is the source of the error. I fixed it.
Ah, I see.
It could be worse. There was (I guess still is) a famous browser extension that replaces every instance of “cloud” with “butt” as a way of making fun of the fad for doing computing things “in the cloud”. Some people have had … unfortunate experiences with that one.