[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[John Clark]

On 06/11/2025 17:40, spike wrote:

* > Side note: I also propose returning the pronouns he and him to
> genderless, restoring she and her to specifically female, and if we ever
> need a specifically masculine gender (when was the last time you needed
> that grammatical construct? *


*How about "he is the father", or "he has a beard and a large penis" ?*

*Since we're on the subject of pronoun policing, what pronoun should we use
when referring to what an AI said or did?  *

*And if Nanotechnology makes two copies of you as precisely as Heisenberg
allows, one in London and the other in Paris, and then destroys the
original, and if just before that happens you ask "what city will I end up
in?" what is the referent of the personal pronoun in that question? *

*John K Clark*

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