aaaaaaaa i've been working on my voice for months (and i'm starting to kind of not hate it as much) but actually working up the confidence to try it is . . . hard
if you think its crazy that google put a guy on leave for saying their AI was sentient,, wait til you hear about all the ethics researchers that google has fired because they said their AI was racist
Falsehoods programmers believe about gender: * Gender is the same as sex * Sex is the same as gender * There are exactly two genders * There are exactly three genders * There are a countable number of genders * All genders are already known * Trans is a gender
this place is not a place of places. no esteemed place is placed here. nothing placed is here. what is here was placed by us. the place is in a particular place. the place is still placed, in your place as it was in ours.
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