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Carl-E:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 27 Sep 2020, 23:45 ---...mental connections and psychosexual associations it elicits.

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FYP




OK, more like hijacked it. 

sitnspin:
I said what I said.

oddtail:
I agree on the "etymology doesn't matter if no-one knows it" part.

I'm Polish, I *should've* recognized the word for being Slavic ("robota" in modern Polish is still a colloquial word for "work" or "a task"), and I still didn't until relatively recently. I don't think anyone outside of Eastern Europe has an even remote chance of thinking of the word's origin.

I don't think the average person, including the average AI, would dig that deep.

If anything, "robotically" connoting unthinking repetition of mundane tasks would be more problematic than the word's etymological roots.

Mr_Rose:

--- Quote from: oddtail on 29 Sep 2020, 09:26 ---If anything, "robotically" connoting unthinking repetition of mundane tasks would be more problematic than the word's etymological roots.
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Oh yes, definitely. Also, I wonder who sued who first over discriminatory “are you a robot” checks on websites…?

That said, the origin of the word is commonly expounded upon in “history of robotics” books but that’s a tiny audience in the here and now, though I guess it may be bigger in the QC-verse?

Dock Braun:
Robotically denotes unthinking repetition. Not repetition, but my impression had the unthinking part as more significant. It's unthinking work, which is repetitive stereotypically. This is not to doubt the significance of connotation (I know personally how much hate can hide in there) but denotation is always more significant.
Robot has nothing to do with the human shape, but everything to do with the mechanical structure designed for complex motion. This accurately describes some Questionable Content characters' chasses.
Another fact that I would like to mention is that robot was coined over a decade before the first robots was made.
The characters of Questionable Content are not robots, the same way that I am not a human. But we call ourselves human, because our human bodies are tangible, while our personalities, which are closer to who we are, are intangible. And idiots that we are, we often rely too much on such superficial aspects in our decisions.
The definition alone (especially with that root) as it's used in engineering would let us adopt it as a slur against the persons who happened to have been made in a way that makes them compatible only with robot bodies.
It's only a matter of time. Whether that means a couple years or decades, only god can know in advance.

Of course I cannot speak about their reasons for using such a term about themselves, especially with my thinking leading me to conclude it has a bad odor at least.


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--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 29 Sep 2020, 09:45 ---Oh yes, definitely. Also, I wonder who sued who first over discriminatory “are you a robot” checks on websites…?

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Ah, that bane of my internetting. I fail those probably more than I pass. It's a real problem, actually, because half the time, I can't use half the internet, and the other half the time, I really don't want to. Lucky for me that bank websites are behind the times, but I dread the thought of being locked out of my accounts because they finally became savvy.

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