insult deflection meme. There i…

@CppGuy @charlotte
You calling your car a bone-shaker is different from a social group co-opting a word specificly made to sound like less morally acceptable slurs, making joke about this closeness, and using it in a way that very much derogatory and as if the machine had feeling.

@Seiryn @CppGuy there is also no multi-billion dollar industry trying to sell the car as a feelings machine that will be just like a human very soon™

@charlotte @Seiryn @CppGuy also i'm starting to doubt a lot of the folks who like to use "clanker" actually understand that there really is no capacity for consciousness, intelligence, sentience, etc. in an LLM

@charlotte Yep slurs are cathartic

@charlotte