People are bothered by some words and phrases.

Recently, I learned that the original meaning of "tl;dr" has stuck in people's mind such that they don't consider it a polite response. That's good to know.

Some things that bother me are:

• Referring to life extension as "immortality".
• Referring to AIs that don't want to kill humans as "friendly".
• Referring to AIs that want to kill humans as simply "unfriendly".
• Expressing disagreement as false lack of understanding, e.g. "I don't know how you could possibly think that."
• Referring an "individual's CEV".
• Referring to "the singularity" instead of "a singularity".

I'm not going to pretend that referring to women as"girls" inherently bothers me, but it bothers other people, so it by extension bothers me and I wouldn't want it excluded from this discussion.

Some say to say not "complexity" or "emergence".