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WCDT 4136-4140 (Nov 18th-22nd, 2019)
Tova:
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--- Quote ---I'm one of those people who celebrates new and more accurate terminology
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I'm with you there. I love precision. "Anatomically correct" has a widely understood meaning but it's not terribly clear if taken literally.
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I think that in the context of an AI who explicitly wants an upgrade of a humanoid chassis, "anatomically correct" is perfectly clear. Veronica certainly didn't find the term to be unclear.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Nov 2019, 16:56 ---Veronica certainly didn't find the term to be unclear.
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To be fair, many people can recognize when someone is using an incorrect/offensive term based on context and provide gentle correction. I know that when someone says their CPU is making a noise that they mean the computer as a whole. I'm not going to put slurs in this post, but I'd argue it's always clear what the people using them actually mean (not that I'm saying "anatomically correct" was a slur, just that you can convey an idea with incorrect/outdated language, but it doesn't make you right to use that language).
Jim has almost always played the "behind the times dad, trying his best but often flummoxed" and Veronica usually plays the "really progressive mom who knows things and is largely unfazed" so the context would indicate that (at least in this universe) "Anatomically Correct is the incorrect term, or at least one that is out of favor by AI in this situation.
Tova:
--- Quote from: rtmq0227 on 22 Nov 2019, 17:10 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Nov 2019, 16:56 ---Veronica certainly didn't find the term to be unclear.
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To be fair, many people can recognize when someone is using an incorrect/offensive term based on context and provide gentle correction.
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Please note that I wasn't commenting on whether the expression was offensive. Nor do I have the appetite to take a position.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Nov 2019, 17:28 ---
--- Quote from: rtmq0227 on 22 Nov 2019, 17:10 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Nov 2019, 16:56 ---Veronica certainly didn't find the term to be unclear.
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To be fair, many people can recognize when someone is using an incorrect/offensive term based on context and provide gentle correction.
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Please note that I wasn't commenting on whether the expression was offensive. Nor do I have the appetite to take a position.
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My point was that whether the term was clear is not the point, it is whether the term was appropriate or accurate.
Tova:
--- Quote from: rtmq0227 on 22 Nov 2019, 18:27 ---My point was that whether the term was clear is not the point, it is whether the term was appropriate or accurate.
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I was explicitly responding to IICIH?'s post, and to be frank, you don't get to decide what other people do or do not discuss.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Nov 2019, 14:43 ---I'm with you there. I love precision. "Anatomically correct" has a widely understood meaning but it's not terribly clear if taken literally.
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(my emphasis)
P.S. I almost feel like Jeph was bending over backwards to make some kind of funny, because I'm sure that the most natural thing to have said in this context would have been, "... working on butt implants for a humanoid AI chassis."
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