Comment by weberc2
6 years ago
Best attempt at a judgement-free guess: some people don't like the bimodal manifestation of gender and would like to not be reminded of it.
6 years ago
Best attempt at a judgement-free guess: some people don't like the bimodal manifestation of gender and would like to not be reminded of it.
The number of people in this category would be small right? Why should I spend time to worry about it?
Maybe you shouldn't. Maybe the people who do care about it can go about creating solutions to their real or perceived problem(s), and maybe the can be okay.
It seems possible, from my perspective, there is enough motivation to go around to work on multiple issues at once.
While climate change, over-fishing, land degradation, certainly could do with more attention, gender issues represent a fairly immediate threat for some people in some places at some times.
Complaints about priorities are a fallacy more often than not, especially since we're talking about different actors - it's not like the people who did this would have been working on climate change otherwise.
But if we were playing the priority game, I'd say that the gender issues that represent immediate threats are stuff like domestic violence and sexual assault. It's reasonable to argue that reducing overall gender bias affects those, but it's a very subtle and long-term effect - and likely beyond the AGW event horizon. It's not going to do anything about the immediate threat.
With these kind of things, we don’t really know.
I find synthetic voices, vocaloid and virtual actors (like “virtual” youtubers) to be interesting in that they when replacing something usually performed by a human, they often do it in way lower quality due to technical limitations.
So it theory here should be a lower appeal to it, but on the other hand there’s a ton of side effects and “disruptive” uses that make the technology useful for a population different from what was intended.
From the top of my head this “neutral” voice could be nice for phone guidance or voice translation, where the awkwardness of the voice could be an advantage. But I wouldn’t be surprised if a bumber of people came forward to declare this the thing they’ve been waiting for years.
Uh oh, wrongthink detected.
Is there any market signal that this is the case?
Maybe we should try to figure out why our society is producing people with this rejection of basic biology rather than ignore the problem