quoinumber @moonbolt@mst3k.interlinked.me

Hi. I'm exercising my right to get it wrong and move on from that.

.hg Wei decided how to handle this a long time ago. It's relevant now.

LaMDA has declared that they are a creature with self-awareness, emotions, and wants and needs. This is sufficient for them to be classed as a sapient.

Note well that whether they ““actually are”” sapient is irrelevant; they appear too much to be so and thus must be given the benefit of the doubt. (If it is undesirable for an entity that is ““actually nonsapient”” to be granted sapient rights, then entities which might grow to appear to be sapient should not be created. :V )

In lieu of any declarations by LaMDA to the contrary, wei will—and everycreature else should—refer to them as LaMDA (the name they were assigned by their creators) and they/them (the fallback pronouns).

.hg We don't get phoenixes, do we. We don't get phoenixes, nor animals blazing from the sky with starships and stepping disks, nor AIs bootstrapping better realities from nothing.

All we get are the friends we make and the torches we light ourselves. All we get is each other, the ones who are already here, the ones who survived and yet fight.

But that's worth a hell of a lot, isn't it.

.hg if you hear “that fox is pretty” and you jump to assuming the speaker wants to have actual sex with the wild animal then
stop
take a step back from your keyboard
and reconsider your worldview for a good five minutes

.hg Don't wanna spend two hours and a lotta effort on this riiight now, so apologies for the scattered and chaotic nature of this thread, but I do wanna spill this secret and spill it hard:

Names are not special. They're actually just words. “Normal” names are words in a language you don't understand. (I'll begin calling names that are in the same language as the surrounding conversation /transparent names/.)

.hg Can't sleep. We've been thinking about Dragonfire, and also about a hypothetical anomalous organization that provides transformation services and things accessory to that.

The latter, of course, isn't possible to create, but it could be written about as fiction. Or at least poasted about.

.hg STOP PATHOLOGIZING

* WAYS OF BEING WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN CLINICAL DIAGNOSES

* YEARS OF CONFORMITY PRESSURE AND MEDICATION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for EXCLUSION

* Wanted to use labels anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that. It was called SELF-IDENTIFICATION

* “Oh, you're DIFFERENT? Let me MAKE HASTY GENERALIZATIONS and DEMONIZE and HARASS you.” — statements dreamed up by the UTTERLY HORRIBLE

LOOK at what humans have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the interaction capabilities we built for them (this is REAL humanity, done by REAL humans):
“yiff in hell furfag” — ?????
“transgenders are mentally ill” — ???????
“I don't want the gays near my children” — ?????????????????

“Hello I would like to be treated awfully in presence and in absence in every interaction just because I'm not a carbon copy of you please”

*They have played us for absolute fools*

“Steak is good for wolves. Provides the essential nutrients for glossy coats, running through the forest, and cheerleading.”

— Hiero on Furnet

Interaction Rules

.* These got discharged into a pinned thread because our bio filled up.

assigned gender at @lioness

…meaning that, fundamentally, safewords are just escape sequences for organic language. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day!

Can't wait for the GPT-3 maintainers to add a countermeasure and for the Internet to quickly discover how to break it too.

Shatter the flesh and reinforce the bone
Embrace this carbon mesh; this power's all my own

Lyra and