Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[RealAlHazred]

In defense of pedantry -- there's a real danger in allowing people to refer to things in certain ways. In my particular case, I feel like even calling the technology "AI" is dangerous, as it will lead people to treat it a certain way, that they may not if it was referred to as an "LLM". I know, it's just a manner of speaking, but it's when it becomes a manner of thinking that I think it's very dangerous. And from "manner of speaking" to "manner of thinking" seems to be a short trip nowadays.

 

[dragoner]

"We can't stop here, this is Gnome country!"

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

 

[el-remmen]

Morrus should make the entire site ad free or grant everyone a free membership but then just charge a dollar for every post about alignment or arguing about THAC0.

Today, I resisted the urge to go full grammar pedant.

I am so proud of myself!

I guess I'll just have to be pedantic about something else?

Hmmm. . . or simply charge Snarf by the word for posting. . .

 

[prabe]

"It's good to remember that the whole point of communicating is to send a message to someone else. Everything else--including the so-called 'proper rules for grammar'--is beside that point. If you can gain clarity or understanding by breaking the rules (of grammar), you should break them." - my writing professor

"The goal of publication, on the other hand, is to sell what you have written. If you find yourself needing to break (a rule of) grammar in an academic paper or a published work, rework the entire sentence. There is 'being correct' and there is 'being clear,' and surely you've read enough academic papers by now to understand which is most important." - the same writing professor

I expect that writing professor--like most--also expressed the idea that before you can break the rules, you need to know them, ideally master them. That is plausibly more of a thing in some forms of writing than others: poetry, for instance.

 

[Ryujin]

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Feels like an infraction day. So peace.

 

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Do not write in this margin

writes all over the margin

 

[dragoner]

Do not write in this margin

writes all over the margin

All the great ones do.

 

[Mad_Jack]

 

[Mad_Jack]

Do not write in this margin

writes all over the margin

Well, I mean... Technically, it kind of depends on what you're writing with. Pencil lead is just kind of on the margin. But ink may or may not actually get absorbed by the paper, so it might be in the margin...

<yells "God save King George!" and runs out of tavern>