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Comment by Karellen

> Every definition of ignore you will find has intention in it

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/ignor...

> to intentionally not listen or give attention to:

> to give no attention to something or someone:

Two definitions - one with intention, one without

> words mean things.

Yes, but they often mean multiple things. Very few dictionary entries only have a single definition for a word. You can't use "words mean things" to claim that "this word means only what I say it means, regardless of the other accepted uses it already has".

> You don’t think it’s important to draw a distinction between whether a robot was deliberately programmed to do something malicious as opposed to a bug which caused an oversight?

I do think there are times when it is very important to do that.

I just don't think that "ignore" is the right word to make that distinction, and isn't a distinction the authors were trying to make at that particular time, because if they were they would probably have used another word.

...at least, that's how I read it. It seemed clear to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

parent Karellen 3 years ago

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