# I'm a... I'm a... What am I? (Let's invent a term) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327 "2010-09-28T06:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/21 "2010-09-29T01:52:05Z")
carbon chauvinist ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/22 "2010-09-29T01:57:24Z")
Anti-semiconductorite Anti-siliconite Lifeist ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/23 "2010-09-29T05:22:48Z")
Adam and Eve, not Silicon Steve Adam and Eve, not Silicon Steve ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/24 "2010-09-29T05:33:12Z")
Well, a human can always claim to be created by God. In any simulacrum that possibility is undermined. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/25 "2010-09-29T12:53:09Z")
You are proto-[Butlerian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad). ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/26 "2010-09-29T13:08:23Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > A Bio-Supremacist. Someone’s in for a horrific draining… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/27 "2010-09-29T15:21:22Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Or do you mean that, in an Asimovian\* world of sentient robots, you’d consider the organic humans to be superior to the robots, no matter how smart or skillful they got? Actually, my dream world tends to consist more of playing professional baseball and being a world-class bowler than having sentient robots roaming– > [@](#): > > \*not the Doper Ah. Nevermind. I’ll just let myself out. I vote for Bio-Supremacist, though. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/28 "2010-09-29T17:31:57Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > You are proto-[Butlerian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad). No no, I am not _against_ technology, I just think technology should be a slave to me; I should not be a slave to my technology. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/29 "2010-10-01T10:14:40Z")
Then bio-supremacist works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/30 "2010-10-01T10:21:58Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Let’s clarify: > > Do you mean that you consider human beings to be superior to all currently existing electronic devices? > > Or do you mean that, in an Asimovian\* world of sentient robots, you’d consider the organic humans to be superior to the robots, no matter how smart or skillful they got? > > Or do you mean that you believe that there never can or will be electronic devices that rival human beings (human-like robots; computers that could pass a Turing test, etc.)? For meaning #1 I’d say ‘sane’. For meaning #3, I think ‘short-sighted’ would be apt. For meaning #2, the most interesting (and hence the focus of most of the replies) I’ll go with ‘anthropist’. Though ‘carbonist’ is good, it tends to imply that you not only consider humans, but all current life on Earth, as superior to silicon-based machines. Which doesn’t seem like what you’re getting at to me. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/31 "2010-10-01T14:09:07Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > > > Sentientist. > > This is my winner so far… Seconded, but it looks much better written than it sounds out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/32 "2010-10-01T14:12:57Z")
Especially if one lisps. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/33 "2010-10-02T01:20:03Z")
Bio-supremacist seems the most accurate. I would have proffered ‘Humanist’ if it didn’t already have another meaning. I grew up thinking I _was_ a humanist, because if God had talked to me, we would have been arguing, and I wouldn’t have listened to him. Humanist. Humans control their world. Made sense at the time. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/34 "2010-10-02T01:37:48Z")
another vote for “sane.” IMO, “isms” are pretty much reserved for any one’s attitudes towards other people. frankly, my laptop simply is incapable of caring about the number of profanities I shout at it while waiting for that goddamn spinning beachball to go away and just show me my fucking files. look, we designed and built electronics. in terms of digital logic, it’s nothing more than a shitload of switches. you can’t be bigoted against switches. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327.md?page=1)