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Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot (futurism.com)
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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Man, can you imagine, the meaningless platitudes that are normally said at these ceremonies, but it's not even a human speaker, but rather an overengineered loudspeaker.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meaningless? I've listened to some excellent graduation speaches. Chris Hedges comes to mind

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I think, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I know, I'm on the extreme side with never having liked such a ceremony. I think, it's because I simply stop feeling represented with the kind of generic speech you get when addressing more than a dozen people, because I guess, I'm just too special of a snowflake...

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So we should all shut up and stop calling for an end to genocide because its "generic speech"?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, that's not a generic speech to me. In that case, you're motivating a specific political issue and trying to convince anyone who's still on the fence. Contentious political issues have always been excluded from the ceremony speeches I attended.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why? That's kinda their responsibility. Especially now, during a genocide.

    Anyone who was speaking at a graduation now and didn't call for action against the war is failing miserablely

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