RE: Re-crafting the extropian image [Was: RE: Norman Spinrad on THE SPIKE]

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 19:15:22 MDT


> This happened because:
>
> 1) I realized that neutrality is also a gender. Calling a modern-day
> human "ve" is as false as calling a (genderless) AI "he".

Then, perhaps we should use "var" for "variable" gender to indicate
unspecified gender? ;)

>
> 2) Syntactic sugar makes it easier to disambiguate between humans and AIs
> in sentences.

Indeed...

ben



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