Redditor coins 'anthrolex': human-language shorthand for AI without implying consciousness
ResonantFork · reddit · 2026-09-08
A Reddit user proposed the verb 'anthrolex': using ordinary human mental/emotional words like 'feel', 'think' and 'like' toward nonhuman intelligences as efficient shorthand, without implying human-like subjective experience.
- Examples: 'What do you think of this code?' 'Which design do you like better?' — the speaker is anthrolexing
- Distinction from anthropomorphism: anthropomorphism humanizes the thing; anthrolexing humanizes only the vocabulary
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