[ipython]

That has to be the most absurd thing I’ve read in a long time. They are trying to argue that adding three words (specifically, pronouns, because culture war) to your email will literally cause people to die?

I’m upvoting just because that will cause a small increase in carbon emissions due to the REST request to the HN servers just to spite this author.

[tacticalturtle]

I’m still holding out hope that this is satire, and pretty good satire at that.

The level of detail in the paper he’s publishing is making me doubt that - but maybe he used an LLM to make the joke go a little further?