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Their wordsTwo ideals come up time and again that caught my attention: the value of freedom, and of privacy, the latter being a good counterexample to historically uninformed perspectives that view privacy as a contemporary construct.
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Automatic AI translation is an imposition that predicts what people want instead of asking them.
Their wordsAI making automatic translations is a good example of much of how we’re doing it wrong: it assumes (or predicts) that people can’t speak more than one language, and it’s an imposition; it tries to predict what I want instead of asking me.
Their wordsTo be the captains of the ship of our culture, we must remain in command of language, because that’s where much of culture resides.
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