Comment on Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 9 hours agoSure. That’s a specific use case and not likely a useful one.
When we start getting into utterances, though, we’re firmly in linguistics. Unless you’ve been passing bad checks.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
Yeah, got to borrow some word from discourse analysis :-P
It fits well what I wanted to say, and it makes the comment itself another example of the phenomenon: that usage of “utterance” as jargon makes the text shorter and more precise but makes it harder to approach = optimises for #2 and #3 at the expense of #1. (I had room to do it in this case because you mentioned your Linguistics major.)
Although the word is from DA I believe this to be related to Pragmatics; my four points are basically a different “mapping” of the Gricean maxims (#1 falls into the maxim of manner, #2 of manner and relation, #3 of quality, #4 of quantity) to highlight trade-offs.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 hours ago
I never got a degree! I got roped into the college paper, and from there, well, I didn’t really care about my studies. Why worry about semantics and semiotics when you can tell 18,000 people what to think?
(yeah, I meandered into news after cutting my teeth in opinion)