Artificial Non-Intelligence

[Maxiine]

"Eight" is apparently a profanity. Let's see, England is "44," what's the city code for Oxford?

(Ignoring for a moment that by definition everything that is not sacred is by definition profane.)

This post is about the dangerous combination of Artificial Intelligence and automation.

I was just banned from a website I used professionally...for repeated use of a word in the profanity filter...the word "eight."

Eight...as in ordering eight sprockets, and receiving six with two on back order... Eight...as in the time of day half-an-hour before work begins.

I assume the word "eight" was placed in the profanity filter by accident...or by a disgruntled IT worker-- BTW have you ever seen "gruntled" workers...anywhere? But that doesn't matter, by the "rules" I used it repeatedly after I was warned.

Well, sorta warned, the dialog box said I used a "forbidden word" but, no doubt due to "eight" being such a linguistic pariah, it did not identify the offending word. So I tried again...no luck...so I sent a message to the administrator.

I guess the AI administrator "bot" didn't like being cussed at-- I had included the 22 word message that was getting rejected-- guess I shouldn't have 'cause now I'm "permanently banned for repeated use of profanity." The email I received identified the word..."eight."

Does Tahiti have an extradition treaty with the US?

 

[DouglasFinney]

Eight is my lucky number.

 

[AlinaX]

I'm disturbed by the normalisation of profanity in this thread. Octality is deeply offensive.

 

[Handley_Page]

"Eight" is apparently a profanity. Let's see, England is "44," what's the city code for Oxford?



Does Tahiti have an extradition treaty with the US?

In the UK, Oxford is 01865

 

[Maxiine]

In the UK, Oxford is 01865

Thanks,

I can "update" the OED just like Wikipedia...right?

 

[NoJo]

What were the other 21 words??

 

[Duleigh]

I had a college professor who a list of words forbidden in her classroom such as "Bullet." Using the phrase "Bullet points, or bullet statement" could get you a failing grade, other words like knife, gun, anything she considered violent was forbidden. And this was a public speaking class. Also, since she was atheist, words like God and blessed and prayer were forbidden too.

Our first speech was on something from our past so I gave a speech on a day in Basic Training where I went to the rifle range and propelled small bit of metal through a mechanical tube into a piece of paper that was shaped like something that was NOT a person. I wish I had kept my notes, it was a memorable speech, I remember it ended in the chow hall too tired to divide up my meat with that flat piece of metal that sits on the opposite side of the plate from the fork.

When she gave me a low grade I gave the speech again to the chair of the English Department. Some teachers don't like middle age veterans in their classes.

 

[SimonDoom]

I had a college professor who a list of words forbidden in her classroom such as "Bullet." Using the phrase "Bullet points, or bullet statement" could get you a failing grade, other words like knife, gun, anything she considered violent was forbidden. And this was a public speaking class. Also, since she was atheist, words like God and blessed and prayer were forbidden too.

Our first speech was on something from our past so I gave a speech on a day in Basic Training where I went to the rifle range and propelled small bit of metal through a mechanical tube into a piece of paper that was shaped like something that was NOT a person. I wish I had kept my notes, it was a memorable speech, I remember it ended in the chow hall too tired to divide up my meat with that flat piece of metal that sits on the opposite side of the plate from the fork.

When she gave me a low grade I gave the speech again to the chair of the English Department. Some teachers don't like middle age veterans in their classes.

That's nuts.

When I hear stuff like this -- and I hear it too often -- I sometimes think we have lost our minds.

 

[Duleigh]

That's nuts.

When I hear stuff like this -- and I hear it too often -- I sometimes think we have lost our minds.

This was back in 2004 before before public displays of arrogant ignorance and room temperature IQ driven speech became fashionable

 

[lovecraft68]

Eight has been branded profane because it was discovered it is numerist and didn't like one of the other numbers.

 

[Comshaw]

I had a college professor who a list of words forbidden in her classroom such as "Bullet." Using the phrase "Bullet points, or bullet statement" could get you a failing grade, other words like knife, gun, anything she considered violent was forbidden. And this was a public speaking class. Also, since she was atheist, words like God and blessed and prayer were forbidden too.

Our first speech was on something from our past so I gave a speech on a day in Basic Training where I went to the rifle range and propelled small bit of metal through a mechanical tube into a piece of paper that was shaped like something that was NOT a person. I wish I had kept my notes, it was a memorable speech, I remember it ended in the chow hall too tired to divide up my meat with that flat piece of metal that sits on the opposite side of the plate from the fork.

When she gave me a low grade I gave the speech again to the chair of the English Department. Some teachers don't like middle age veterans in their classes.

One of the two instructors for the creative writing class I took warned us that she would reject any story containing anything to do with motorcycles. She never bothered to answer the question of why.

Comshaw

 

[ElectricBlue]

One of the two instructors for the creative writing class I took warned us that she would reject any story containing anything to do with motorcycles. She never bothered to answer the question of why.

Comshaw

Maybe she had Robert Pirsign in a much earlier class, and he gave her the shits with all that Zen stuff, when all she wanted was the manual.

 

[Duleigh]

One of the two instructors for the creative writing class I took warned us that she would reject any story containing anything to do with motorcycles. She never bothered to answer the question of why.

Comshaw

I would insure that the word Motorcycle was prominent, not a part of the plot by any means but there, something like:
"I walked into Mr. Bergen's office and saw a picture on the wall of him and his wife standing by his 1988 Yamaha XV535 motorcycle and I knew right away that I met a kindred soul..."

Bears need to be poked.

 

[R. Richard]

One of the two instructors for the creative writing class I took warned us that she would reject any story containing anything to do with motorcycles. She never bothered to answer the question of why.

Comshaw

A lot of people are against motorcycles. IO was just cruising on my motorcycle when this cop comes up and snarls, "Kid, if I catch you in this theater lobby one more time, there gonna be real trouble!"

 

[TarnishedPenny]

When she gave me a low grade I gave the speech again to the chair of the English Department. Some teachers don't like middle age veterans in their classes.

I had a friend, a middle-aged vet, who ran into the bigotry of a similar prof. He was appalled and depressed when she gave him zero (yes, 0%) on his first major assignment. I told him this was a delightful mark since the school in question was noted for, say, giving you 5% for spelling your name correctly on tests. Had she been a clever bigot, I said, she would’ve given him 47%. As it was, on my advice, he took the paper to the dean. He got a review, a B+ for the paper and future assignments marked by a third party. She got a review of a different kind. Justice comes in multiple forms.

 

[Lifestyle66]

When anyone bans any words, they are restricting communication between humans.

I liked the comedian George Carlin's take it in 1972 in his; "The Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV"

" ... 'That's a BAD word!' ... "
"There are no bad words. There are bad thoughts ... bad intentions ... and WORDS."

In his comedy set, he went on to discuss those seven words.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The server you were on must have been a Chinese server. To the Chinese 8 is an unlucky number, therefore a profane thing.

 

[TheRedChamber]

The server you were on must have been a Chinese server. To the Chinese 8 is an unlucky number, therefore a profane thing.

8 is lucky in China. It's 4 that's unlucky (rhymes with 'death').

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Eight has been branded profane because it was discovered it is numerist and didn't like one of the other numbers.

I was told that seven was the number to avoid, because everyone knows that seven ate nine.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

When AI gets politically correct. Gah.

Poor Hawaii, the area code is 808...

Is this somehow being associated with the 88 thing that Nazis do? That's a helluva stretch, even for a zealous mind monitoring a company's cultural apparatus for wrongthink.

8 is also the number of Khorne, the Blood God, in the Warhammer universe. Maybe they thought you were about to go postal and fill the entire place with hot brass?

I'm not helpful, I should stop speculating.