>>I am greatly bothered by the degree to which modern humans emulate robots,...<<
Well, at least she was polite about being thrown off-script.
That was the role where half the work I did was either teaching people scripts or working around scripts that didnt fit.
>>So problems don't get solved, and folks generally learn that asking for help is often pointless.<<
In my case "I gave up on trying to fix this six months back, you try thinking of solutions. And then I'll refuse any I've already tried, / don't think will work."
>>Of course, with racism and sexism, those are easily proven with facts.<<
Then you get people who think such a system is already in place, so, say racial prison disparities or the gender wage gap are because of individuals making bad choices (their argument not mine), not a slightly biased system with cumulative effects.
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Re: Well ...
Date: 2021-10-03 01:39 am (UTC)Well, at least she was polite about being thrown off-script.
That was the role where half the work I did was either teaching people scripts or working around scripts that didnt fit.
>>So problems don't get solved, and folks generally learn that asking for help is often pointless.<<
In my case "I gave up on trying to fix this six months back, you try thinking of solutions. And then I'll refuse any I've already tried, / don't think will work."
>>Of course, with racism and sexism, those are easily proven with facts.<<
Then you get people who think such a system is already in place, so, say racial prison disparities or the gender wage gap are because of individuals making bad choices (their argument not mine), not a slightly biased system with cumulative effects.