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by she11c0de
1229 days ago
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> it's a huge waste of researchers time to obsess about political correctness when we could be <100 years off from AGI. This really irritates me. The wokism/political correctness is pretty much in every part of our lifes and everyone seems to be terrorized by it. Can we just agree that we're all thinking adults and we understand that this is an algorithm, it does not mean to offend anyone... There are much more interesting problems to solve than tip-toeing around all the snowflakes. |
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I see no evidence of this.
Partly because "woke" means different things to different people in the last 10 years despite the preceding 80 being solely about the systemic institutional discrimination against black Americans.
But also partly because that "woke" became "everything $speaker doesn't like" (and thus exactly the same meaning "political correctness" had when I was a kid), and therefore people who "hate PC" come across not so much terrified as petulant.
> Can we just agree that we're all thinking adults and we understand that this is an algorithm, it does not mean to offend anyone...
No.
What you're describing is how humans like to see themselves, not how humans really function.
> There are much more interesting problems to solve than tip-toeing around all the snowflakes.
We can't just tip-toe around snowflakes.
To give a real example, some gay furry American conservative snowflakes got apoplectically upset when the furry convention they wanted go to to reminded all attendees that as the con is based in Germany they had always banned Nazis.
I still don't know why those particular snowflakes chose to believe that "Nazi" was literally just a dog-whistle for "conservative".
And now there are some American conservative politicians are now making up random nonsense about furries which is weirdly somehow getting conflated with transgender issues (don't know how or why, American politics isn't that interesting, merely invasive like Japanese knotweed).