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Post by dang » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 3:09 AM UTC

funnyfacts365 wrote: post #38

You must have no real problems to solve in your life or job uf this is what rustles your jimmies to the point of writing long winded comments on random foums, probably even going to the point of creating an account on some website just for it. Or maybe you don't have the balls to say what you think with your regular account.

Post by Apocryphon » Mon, Dec 19, 2016, 7:04 PM UTC

234dd57d2c8db wrote: post #40

g_brown wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both of these articles phrase very nicely the reasons for my dislike of female-gendered assistants. "The late Stanford communications professor Clifford Nass, who coauthored the field’s seminal book, Wired for Speech, wrote that people tend to perceive female voices as helping us solve our problems by ourselves, while they view male voices as authority figures who tell us the answers to our problems. We want our tech…

Well my preference is to be helped by helpful women. Go build your own distro if you want to be helped by a faceless robot. I'll take Sarah, Siri, and Cortana, thanks. If you don't like it, build a better product that competes with these devices. No one likes a whiner, especially one who thinks they are the centre of the universe and their personal preferences should dictate the course of the "tech world", as you put…