In conclusion, words have meanings. Lines of code spitting out probabilistic responses to queries is not slavery. Telling people they have to pay taxes isn't slavery. Being told to wear a mask during a pandemic isn't slavery. People who endured slavery are PEOPLE. They suffered. I reiterate: hands.

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When you engage with people who experienced slavery as real, flesh-and-blood individuals, if you have any empathy at all it will churn your stomach and make you question a great many things about the world as it was and is.

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For example, Columbus's initial reaction upon landing in the Americas was to view the indigenous inhabitants as a resource to be harvested on future voyages, and even weighed potential death rates during the crossing and their impact on profitability. You don't have to hand it to that guy, ever.

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Would you like to know what slavery was actually like? I did a whole season of Past Lives on the experiences of enslaved people. It damn near broke me. Start here: pod.link/1852618120/e...

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Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

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