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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

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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…

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This sounds like a different thing I’m imagining now. If anyone’s seen Upload…

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Peelooping

Thank you but I’m unsatisfied with both “defecate” and “excrete” as they usually are interpreted to mean pooping, I think…

Even though that may not be technically the only use

“1s and 2s”? … no, not good enough.

My savior.