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0 pointsgorjusborg2y ago0 comments

Whoever suggested 'eventual recovery from overfitting' is a kindred spirit.

Why throw away the context and nuance?

That decision only further leans into the 'AI is magic' attitude.

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No, actually this is just how language evolves. I'm glad we have the word "car" instead of "carriage powered by internal combustion engine" even if it confused some people 100 years ago when the term became used exclusively to mean something a bit more specfic.

Of course the jargon used in a specific sub-field evolves much more quickly than common usage because the intended audience of paper like this is expected to be well-read and current in the field already.

smolder2y ago

Language devolves just as it evolves. We (the grand we) regularly introduce ambiguity --words and meanings with no useful purpose, or that are worse than useless.

I'm not really weighing in on the appropriateness of the use "grok" in this case. It's just a pet peeve of mine that people bring out "language evolves" as an excuse for why any arbitrary change is natural and therefore acceptable and we should go with the flow. Some changes are strictly bad ones.

A go-to example is when "literally" no longer means "literally", but its opposite, or nothing at all. We don't have a replacement word, so now in some contexts people have to explain that they "literally mean literally".

krapp2y ago

Language only evolves, "devolving" isn't a thing. All changes are arbitrary. Language is always messy, fluid and ambigious. You should go with the flow because being a prescriptivist about the way other people speak is obnoxious and pointless.

And "literally" has been used to mean "figuratively" for as long as the word has existed[0].

[0]https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/96439

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gorjusborgOP2y ago

> No, actually this is just how language evolves

Stop making 'fetch' happen, it's not going to happen.

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