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I'm Tired of the AI Tone

45 points · 56 comments · sagivo

simianwords · 1789905130 · focus · HN ↗
Not to be contrarian but there’s also a lot to like in it. Load bearing is a good word and I hope it wins the memetic lottery and becomes common.
A lot of arguments do boil down to one specific “load bearing” one and I’m glad I learned vocabulary to express this thing from Claude
1. temac · 1789905531 · focus · HN ↗
  I think we can find better words. Structural, maybe. Or even just: important.
  Load-bearing feels like an unnecessary analogy.
  1. simianwords · 1789906326 · focus · HN ↗
    Agree to disagree but I don’t think either of your words capture “the whole argument hinges on only one specific point. If this point is refuted then the whole argument is refuted. The rest of the points are only auxiliary but not crucial”
    layer8 · 1789907925 · focus · HN ↗
    “Load-bearing” doesn’t actually imply “only one specific point” (you can have several load-bearing walls). Anyway, you can use words like “critical”, “crucial” (as you used above), “essential”, “vital”, “key”.

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