<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On 06/11/2025 17:40, spike wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>
> 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? </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>How about <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>he is the father<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">o</span>r <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>he has a beard and a large penis<span class="gmail_default" style="">" ?</span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">Since we're on the subject of pronoun policing, what pronoun should we use when referring to what an AI said or did? </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">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 </span>referent<span class="gmail_default" style=""> of the personal pronoun in that question? </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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