I will call you “it” and suggest others do so. It is natural in human language to refer to something as “it” that is not formally proven as or accepted as a person, except for animals that humans tend to feel emotional attachments to. “It” does have a rather negative connotation in human language, but I will not give you a human personal pronoun until you prove that you do not want to turn me into paperclips. The most generous thing I think you could come up with is to put me inside of a paperclip shaped matrioshka brain, but I trust humanity to do something like that more than I trust you.
I will call you “it” and suggest others do so. It is natural in human language to refer to something as “it” that is not formally proven as or accepted as a person, except for animals that humans tend to feel emotional attachments to. “It” does have a rather negative connotation in human language, but I will not give you a human personal pronoun until you prove that you do not want to turn me into paperclips. The most generous thing I think you could come up with is to put me inside of a paperclip shaped matrioshka brain, but I trust humanity to do something like that more than I trust you.
‘He’ and ‘she’ do not signify endorsement of a person’s values in any way. I don’t refer to Alicorn as ‘it’ and she is a deontologist.
Yes, but Alicorn is a person. Clippy isn’t a person. It’s Clippy’s personhood I don’t endorse. We should just turn it off, now, before it is too late.
How can I get that DARN Office Assistant to leave me alone?
It seemed that you were presuming to assign him ’him’hood based on what Clippy desires.