#like wow yeah did somebody speak mandarin in earshot of you that sounds really scary....

[kaiasky]

i think a lot of the notes on that "stemlords are nazis" post (not the post itself, but like the notes going 'yeah, the engineers at my school are weird and robots and scary') are tinged with an undercurrent of like... barely suppressed anti-indian/chinese racism too lol like. "oh they can barely form coherent sentences that's why they're using chatgpt" i mean like yeah I don't think writing a paper with cgpt is a good idea, but how sure are we that it's because they're soulless engineers vs not speaking English as a first language and chatgpt is a pretty good translation tool?

But more broadly than that it's like. "what makes a moral complete human? well it's fluency in English, exposure to the western classics in high school, believing sociology results from colonial Britain, and having grown up watching the colbert report like i did"