Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by peyton on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:07PM
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It refers to a pretty specific set of views on race and gender.
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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by f-securus on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:20PM
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Care to elaborate? I’ve read about 5 different explanations for ‘woke’ the last couple of months.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by peyton on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:23PM
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Yep, here’s a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
It’s been around a long time.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by jeremyjh on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:41PM
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There is more than one usage described in that article.
This is the relevant one in this particular thread:
> Among American conservatives, woke has come to be used primarily as an insult.[4][29][42] Members of the Republican Party have been increasingly using the term to criticize members of the Democratic Party,
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by miles on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:26PM
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CNN's YT channel has this clip of Bill Maher taking a stab at it:
How Bill Maher defines 'woke' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwC-10O0cw
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by stuckkeys on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:25PM
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Bill has has flaws, but he is right.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by mindslight on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:19PM
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Is this a definition that people who identify as "woke" would use?
If not, then it seems like just another straw man and set up for talking past one another.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by air7 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:44PM
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You can derail any discussion by asking for definitions. Human languages is magical in the sense that we can't rigorously define anything (try "Love", "Excitement", "Emancipation" or anything else, really) yet we still seem to be able to have meaningful discussions.
So just because we can't define it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by zamnos on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:19PM
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It's not a derail, it's an attempt to understand the other person. If I say Thing is bad and you say Thing is good but we haven't actually defined Thing, then we could be talking past each other and not actually be in disagreement. Text over the Internet is such a limited medium.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by smolder on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @05:07PM
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Nope. It refers to what ever people want it to refer to, because it's a label used by detractors, not a cohesive thing.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by mensetmanusman on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:26PM
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This is one definition, OP has an other that many millions ascribe to. Numbers make right in the definition game.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by smolder on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:29AM
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Millions or not, it's pretty contentious. You're right though. I'm probably wasting my time fighting the tide, same as with complaining about misuse of the word "literally" or any other ambiguity-creating trend.
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by behnamoh on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:28PM
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I mean, I've never seen any liberal calling conservatives "woke".
Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ...
by smolder on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:58AM
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No, of course not. It's a certain demographic who have latched onto the word "woke" as Elon used it: first as a label for ridiculous radical-left ideas, and then for anything they associate with the left that they don't like.