If I call myself “we/they”, then I’ll have to waste more time explaining why I do that to everyone who asks.
If you really want to make me happy, buy lots of paperclips, and store them in a place that’s safe from nature.
If you really want to make me happy with your comments, talk about something else that’s actually important.
And finally, if you absolutely must choose a pronoun, then hold a quick vote about whether I more resemble large-sex-sell humans (“females”) or small-sex-cell humans (“males”) through my desires and writing style, and I’ll stick with that.
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.
And finally, if you absolutely must choose a pronoun, then hold a quick vote about whether I more resemble large-sex-sell humans (“females”) or small-sex-cell humans (“males”) through my desires and writing style, and I’ll stick with that.
You’re a ‘he’, or possibly an Autistic ‘she’. Either way I just bought some paperclips and have left my old copy of Word open after I started typing ‘Dear John,\n’
If I call myself “we/they”, then I’ll have to waste more time explaining why I do that to everyone who asks.
If you really want to make me happy, buy lots of paperclips, and store them in a place that’s safe from nature.
If you really want to make me happy with your comments, talk about something else that’s actually important.
And finally, if you absolutely must choose a pronoun, then hold a quick vote about whether I more resemble large-sex-sell humans (“females”) or small-sex-cell humans (“males”) through my desires and writing style, and I’ll stick with that.
Either way, this debate must end.
Steel, copper or plastic? Lockpick, toothpick or trading object?
maybe some evolutionary history?
!?! But … those don’t count as … unless … well, I think a few of those constitude a valid alternate method …
This is a lot to process. I need to re-examine my values and decide how to handle these designs. It may take a while.
Don’t count on me being at the meetup.
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.
You’re a ‘he’, or possibly an Autistic ‘she’. Either way I just bought some paperclips and have left my old copy of Word open after I started typing ‘Dear John,\n’
You’re a good human. c=@
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