Re:Clanker: A Word for the Machine
by furyman on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:45PM
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I have seen this terminology for first time. Interesting wordplay. You're trying to dismantle the aspects of consciousness, empathy, moral compass altogether from the AI tools hardware or software. But default I think it is already in a dehyphenated form.
Before I bought my first car I used to think I would call my Moving Machine because yes it just moves, but then I go on to call it by name and take pride and feel happy when I ride it. It is humans who attach values and emotions to machines not the other way. And this would be the only distinguishing factor between the two of us for eternity.
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Its hard to follow your comment as there's a variety of misused words (eg dismantle, dehyphenated) and typos/errors.
I don't think it's that hard to follow, and I'm not convinced your comment is adding to the discourse particularly.
In response to OP: the question is just whether you believe LLMs can now, or will in future, be able to experience something similar to an emotion as to whether you're right or not.
I don't even know what their fundamental point/stance is - in support or against clanker