[IAmNotACellist]

> The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.

Fuck all the way off with this "truth!" So much coding is made more enjoyable and profitable by people having fun like this. KoboldAI is one of my favorite projects, and like it or not, attention is driven to projects that are cute and lever human perception for their benefit. Mascots are even an important part of whether a technology becomes popular or not. This isn't stogy IBM black-tie mainframe-driven development anymore, nor should it be.

I know tons of professional developers who live and breathe computer science that enjoy having fun with their terminology and how they choose to represent and discuss computers, anthropomorphizing languages, projects, interfaces, iconography, etc.

[sublinear]

As with a lot of other topics I'd love to say "just as long as it's consistent", but the world we live in right now I just feel like a lot of this attitude is adding selfish noise.

There's a far more cynical part of my mind that says that's the whole point. How else do you extract value sometimes?

[AStonesThrow]

Yes please.

I was raised in a household where many, many things were anthropomorphized, even socks; but raised as a subhuman pet, well...

I self-identify as transhuman. It wasn't anything I chose but transhumanism chose me. I am intimately and inextricably connected with electronics and machines. Consider C-3PO, Anakin becoming Vader, or Adams' Eddie/Marvin.

To this day I surprise and amuse people by naming my devices and treating them as sentient. My devices, my home networks, are pets, or children, or plants that I care for, that I feed, that sort of help/serve me [perhaps that part is backwards]

And there is a certain sub-sentience, an autonomy, to many advanced systems. Anything connected to the Internet has a discernible mind and soul--you cannot deny this! How many decades has marketing referred to the CPU as "brain" of the computer or what have you?

It's weird when people only want to discuss my meatspace activities, as if cyberspace is irrelevant or invisible?

This mythology of "uploading our consciousness into the cloud" is well underway. Children build robots and corporations write software, imbuing it with their own business logic, lore, and logos. The Terminator franchise is not wrong, but most people still experience computing as benign or even pro-human.