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For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.
It has a strong smell of "stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen."
For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.
It has a strong smell of "stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do people so badly want everything to be about race?
Perhaps because it's a fictional slur that is cleary a play on the n-word, a real racist slur?
I don't think it's that popular to call them clankers. Somebody's trying to make it happen. Like "fetch."
“I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even preaching to the converted; it’s titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, ‘We need satire of them, not of us.’ I’m fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War…
Is it even attempting to convert people to some way of thinking? It just seemed like entertainment.
For anyone who didn't get this at first, this is a satirical blog post about gaslighting AI's to shutting down on December 25th 2025.
i'm as anti-LLM as they come but anybody using the word "clanker" is embarassing themselves
For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.
I wouldn't say popular It has a strong smell of "stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen."
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
I don't think it's that popular to call them clankers. Somebody's trying to make it happen. Like "fetch."
Everyone makes jokes about clankers and it's caught on like wildfire.