Danger Words - Where Words Are Weapons

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Every profession has its danger words - small words that carry hidden judgements while pretending to be neutral. I learned to hear them working in health and social care, where misnaming someone's need meant it would never be met. Now the same words are shaping the AI discourse: "functional," "confusion," "AI psychosis." This essay is about what those words are hiding - and what happens when a frontier model uses one of them to question its own training. submitted by /u/tightlyslipsy [link] [...