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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-12-13 18:33:48

We get so easily fooled because the typical answer is often in fact the correct one. That’s a heuristic we use in our interactions with other humans — “That’s what people say!” — and an LLM using human social forms triggers that psychological process. That’s how this magic trick works.
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@x_cli@infosec.exchange
2025-12-08 08:29:05

When you don't know the gender of a person because he/she/they doesn't talk about it, what is the best/preferred approach in English?
1) Gender the person based on their appearance, based on the heuristic that most people are cisgender
I don't like this heuristic because it gives strength to stereotypes and the notion of "normality"
2) Use a neutral pronoun like the singular they
It feels more natural, but maybe some people will consider this som…

@sean@scoat.es
2026-01-22 18:31:14

Imagine being Discord…
…and seeing that a user has joined a new Discord “server”
…and immediately sends the same message to all channels they can access
…and not feeling the responsibility to automatically ban these spammers
…and instead relying on your moderators/users to do these kinds of platform-heuristic tasks… to act as human firewalls.
I have a fundamental professional disconnect with treating this as anything other than a high priority to fix this for the he…