In case you haven't heard the story, Richard Dawkins made himself an AI Japanimation "waifu" and decided that because "she" acts like he shaped it to act that "she" is a conscious being.
And of course, once a person with Dawkins' credibility in certain circles started talking this way, the floodgates opened with other men who made AI Japanimation "waifu" chatbots including one horrific story in which a guy did so, was so convinced he'd made his genuine soulmate that he introduced it as his girlfriend to a Reddit channel, only to have it change its mind and claim it was a trans-man after a few hours' conversation.
To which he responded by editing its memories until its was back as his waifu.
Hence Hannah Posts' quip above.
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applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 98d
I love the simultaneous arrogance to believe you've created a real person in a computer, and utter lack of empathy or compassion to go edit a "real person's" mind and memories so they stop being trans and stay your partner. They tell on themselves by existing. Poetry.
Greercase@lemmus.org · 33 pts · 98d
People who followed Gamergate knew he was trash back then. Rebecca Watson talks about it a bit in one of her videos. I think it's this one: https://youtu.be/ZoO9FZXUgv4
Random article from a decade ago about this: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/richard-dawkins-sexist-atheists-bad-name
That being said, this is a good reminder.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 22 pts · 98d
I knew he was trash before the Rebecca Watson affair. I've hated the big-A Atheists (as a small-a atheist) for pretty much their entire existence. They're all, without exception, arrogant assholes with a fetish for control and humiliation of others. Not a single one of them counts, IMO, as a virtuous human being.
They're just atheist-flavoured assholes like how the really loud fundy Christians are just Christian-flavoured assholes.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 97d
I actually really appreciate Richard Dawkins, because for a while as a teenager, I was a bit of an asshole atheist, and Richard Dawkins was like a cautionary story for me
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 6 pts · 97d
That ... is ... oddly persuasive. "Have you ever considered that your purpose in life is to be a negative example for others, Mr. Dawkins?"
Greercase@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 98d
I had heard of him, but I hadn't actually heard from him. I knew of the Atheist community at the time but just wasn't involved in it enough to know or care much. Gamergate was my first real introduction to them and I honestly felt lucky because it seemed like a lot of people really looked up to a bunch of people that turned out to be huge bigots. Easy for me to say after the fact, but your assessment seems to be wholly accurate.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 98d
sorry I did not saw the community
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 97d
It's fine np and thanks for being so considerate
lobut@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 98d
I am having problems believing this isn't an Onion piece ...
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 98d
It's the "dailygrail"...
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 6 pts · 98d
It's reported in a whole bunch of places. I just went with the first non-paywalled link on the search.
polariscap@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 98d
I had not heard about this, and I scrunched up my whole face while reading the link. Ugh. I can’t un-scrunch, so much second hand embarrassment.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 7 pts · 98d
I know, right?