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I'm Slavic, i.e. the ethic group of people that is the likely etymological origin of the word slave.

I'm not offended by the concept of slavery, or by the words master or slave. Indeed, I think it's important to keep this important concept in mind, so that we can solve the related problem of enslaved humans. In addition, I don't see a problem with these words being used in non-human concept - slavery is only a problem if slaves are human. Personally, I want to be the master to my (non-concious) computer slaves (well, better than the reverse, at least...).




Exactly. Don't have human slave, but slavery of computers is actually something desirable. Until AI become emotional and that's not a thing we should be doing anymore. :)




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