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Executive Order – Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government (whitehouse.gov)
44 points by hooverd 51 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 24 comments


It’s impossible to understand what anyone even means by woke now.

Is it just there being a girl in a movie?

Is it an outcome someone doesn’t like?

Is it just science?

Is it … nothing?


Woke is a branch of Satanism. A flavor of rebellion against God, a kind of suicide cult.


Hello, i'm interested in joining this religion and looking for a brochure.


Please tell me you're being ironic.


I'm being serious.


woke = anti-traditional


woke = "something I don't like."


woke = "something that doesn't make money for Trump or his corrupt friends like Musk"


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Nah, there's at least a comparison to be made with a concrete actual thing (the nazi party) -- "woke" in 99.9% of its current usage has no meaning whatsoever beyond a nebulous "this is what they think" type connotation.

A nazi person is a supremacist. A woke person... Is what? There's no consistency about what that is at all. I've seen the word woke applied to vegetarian pizza toppings. It literally has no meaning beyond being a snarl word.


Wokeness is obviously supremacy - moral purity and superiority.


So obvious yet no one else has claimed the same definition.


>Is it just there being a girl in a movie?

please use inclusive, equitable and safe language, citizen. here's an example, courtesy of your previous administration.

https://xcancel.com/USDOL/status/1795879796599111997


Whatever point you’re trying to make by badly satirizing a leftist means nothing when the people in power now are _way_ more harmful and affect the lives of Americans in more ways than just policing language, which they _also do_.


Am I supposed to feel differently about the government making these decisions because of some other decision?

I honestly don’t know what people expect me to think of “well this party did this other thing” type posts.


oh, don't be coy. I'm saying that at this point everyone knows what 'woke' is. no one is complaining about 'girls in movies' (sorry about the harmful language, I'm just quoting you)


I don't know what people think woke is, as it is used on the internet or even IRL, it seems to be thrown at everything.

At one point the current administration said they were laying people off because those people were woke... but I'm not sure they even were looking at anything involving those people. It seems impossible due to the volume of people involved.

A senator claimed to have a list of "woke scientists". What does that even mean, just having an opinion?

Star Trek was too woke for people at one point, and that doesn't make sense as if you ever watched Star Trek you'd know it always had a lot of social commentary.

The term has devolved.


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Naw his list included a lot of valid science. There was no apparent rhyme or reason to the parts of the list was known.

And of course like all such claims nobody to actually answer for why something was on the list. Just a lot of fearmongering that works on people.


>Naw his list included a lot of valid science. There was no apparent rhyme or reason to the parts of the list was known.

it did, yes, but it shows how many people were getting paid obscene amounts of money to 'research' equitable math* and such.

* yes, seriously. people get paid to call math racist. https://equitablemath.org/


If anyone else is reading along, the throwaway account is also lying about this (shocker!)

You'll open link to find a website that does not at all claim math is racist, but instead claims that it has been unequally taught for years. Which makes complete sense, as the racial gap in Math attainment in the US isn't replicated in other countries -- in the UK GCSE Maths levels for black students hover around or slightly above those of white students.


Is it even worth engaging... I wonder if the science of vaccination is also "verbal gonorrhea". Considering we've left the deciding of that to thoughtful leaders like RFK Jr.


Dude, there is a literal spreadsheet on "woke" video games actively worked on that labeled Batman: Arkham Knight "subtly woke" for a single voicemail. Also Halo Infinite is woke for having females in combat.

https://wokedetector.cirnoslab.me/full-list


speaking as someone, I can say that I am more than a bit fuzzy on exactly what woke is, but somehow feel certain that I will find it anoying, that said I would happily have "woke" stuff just pushed out of the naritive....as long as they also made sure that the government AI could not reference , frenology, and eugenics, mien campf, and or anything else that was not common to 99.9999% of the human population, withh everything else lumped under the basic right to consentualy partisipate in whatever, and the counter right to not have whatever, non consentualy shoved in thier face. tricky to impliment, but worth a try, I think.


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Just now?


Well, it’s been gearing up for a while but when the official Whitehouse account posts AI pictures of the president as the new pope and Superman, a deepfake of a former president getting arrested, and now this nonsense, I’d say it’s official at this point.




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