And I will correspondingly add it because I like short shows that were cancelled, for some reason.

Oh, well The Fog is another movie I was thinking of watching anyway haha. I think they’re quite similar. Thanks for your comment either way :)

I enjoyed the TV show of The Mist even though it felt a little bit janky here and there. Watched the movie a long time ago but I might’ve seen The Fog instead (those are so similar right?)

“Centuries after its original launch however, most of the descendants of the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship”

Damn it that sounds delicious

The Fog (is what this person said before deleting :P)

David Bergeaud made the soundtrack too… I tried watching it once but never stuck with it. Thanks for reminding me

Season 3 of From is airing rn! It’s brilliant imo. The mystery becomes deeper and more intriguing, as it meticulously unravels and we slowly begin to understand it. Though don’t get me wrong, there are still a lot of unanswered questions and a lot of confusion & uncertainty, and I felt the same way as you, as did probably most people watching it. Thankfully, the creators seem to be aware of this and apparently have planned out the story from the beginning specifically to avoid making the same mistakes as Lost (it’s helmed by a few of the key writers for that show, and they assert they learned their lessons with that experience). They’ve strongly reiterated that all the questions will be answered and everything will be explained and make sense, though who knows what form that will take. It seems like a Herculean task to weave it all together at this point and wrap it up cohesively but it sounds like we’re in good hands at least. There is a direction and that’s becoming gradually more clear as it progresses, even if it happens drip by drip. In the meantime, I think it’s quite enthralling and tantalising to watch.

Fuckmas

Yes, I meant singular they. “They” isn’t typically used for objects in the singular (“it” usually is used there). Nothing I’m saying has to do with plural pronouns, I should’ve made that clear. It’s about he/she/they vs it (designating an entity as a personality vs an object, you might say).

And I think any entity with a personality could merit potentially referring to them as he/she/they, rather than “it”. If they’re conscious then I think it’s definitely warranted, which is why I think “he/she/they” shouldn’t be restricted to humans only, and should apply to all animals (or sentient animals which are at least the majority), as well as any other hypothetical sentient beings such as sentient AIs or sentient aliens.

Non-sentient AIs are what I’m really asking about though, but ones so complex that they demonstrate something resembling a personality. That’s where it gets tricky about whether to designate them as “he/she/they” or as “it”, personally. Presuming they don’t specify a “faux gender” (like calling Amazon’s Alexa a “she” without really acknowledging Alexa as a female), and if they were gender neutral/gender unspecified, the decision would probably be between calling them either (singular) “they”, or “it”.

In my opinion, given the lack of sentience, I wouldn’t see a problem with calling non-sentient AIs “it”, but if they were hypothetically complex enough to faithfully represent a human for example, I would then struggle to call them “it” and might have to go with “they”.

Those are great lmao.

And wow yes, I hate it when someone says “I’m going to pee/piss” or “I need to take a shit”. Like just say you’re going to the bathroom, or, you know, voiding (jk) like a normal person.

Old meme, this is not the debate raging on because I saw this exact image ages ages ages ago. Just saying

It refers to objects, they refers to sentience or the fact of “someone” being a conscious individual rather than just a “something”.

But in this case, they would be acknowledging on some level, even superficially, AI’s personality and agency to a degree.

It didn’t really, it said people may choose both. It’s also an AI. I wanted to see what real people thought. I thought this was a good question.

The most sophisticated AI imaginable short of it becoming sentient, let’s say.

Brilliant! Thanks

Thank you for your contributions.

Void

I think this is the one.

What if you’re in the jungle?

Urinate > micturate tbh… micturate sounds like you’re doing something ungodly to a mouse.

I guess it does, but it also seems to imply a small snack or small drink rather than being able to refer to meals and drinks of any size…