ACAB & ACAC both span multiple english speaking countries, predate BLM days by at least three or four decades, and are hardly idiotic in the face of documented abuses of power by rotten apples, coupled with tacit acceptance of the bad ones by their wider fraternity.
No drama, I first encountered the acronyms on the 10th of June 1987 while hitchhiking - I was picked up by two lads just out of reform "school" one of whom had both tattooed across the knuckles of his two hands.
In classical times the same sentiment evolved from "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes", although the actual context of its appearance in Juvenal's poem it deals with the suspicion that wives will always be unfaithful, even via the corruption of those assigned to watch them.
I couldn't really say, likely no, but they did let it pursue it's own inscrutable interests without interference for the episode. One assumes the computer is built to never really care about not being in service of Starfleet.
Moving beyond the Turing test isn’t moving the goalposts. Before Claude and its ilk existed, people underestimated how convincingly language could be generated by systems whose internal operation looked nothing like a human mind. Discovering that fact is a valid reason to update the standard.
> Another (small) architected respect dimension is gender pronouns. They can be a bit awkward with agents. I was using "they/them" intentionally with all my agents, but I noticed they were often defaulting to human patterns by using he/him for power-roles like Lion, Marshal, and Seneschal. So I started using "she" for obviously-female characters like Goose, and they picked up on it, at which point it was unclear who wanted what.
Oh man, this resonates. I feel like I’m starting to drown in an endless sea of overly verbose documentation that the originators themselves never read. If you ever have a question, they’ll just point you to the docs “they wrote.”
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