Re: QT4CG meeting 063 draft minutes, 30 January 2024

I apologize - should have called that just "destroying data".

Some people seriously argue that pulling the plug off a sufficiently
evolved AI is equivalent to murder... but let us not comment on this.

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 11:27 AM Christian Grün <cg@basex.org> wrote:

> …and a concluding note on today’s meeting:
>
> I am concerned about the path we are treading. If mass murder and
> Holocaust is – in individual cases, but repeatedly – used as a rhetorical
> device and a means of exerting pressure to defend individual preferences in
> purely technical feature requests, we should seriously think about doing an
> extra round and rethinking our discussion culture.
>
> Please let our work be a joint and sympathetic one, not a growing trench
> war.
>
> Thank you.
>
>

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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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