I have no problem with this person choosing to use different language to describe this.
But I do have a problem generally with attempts to impose language changes on others (in the case of this post you only see that tendency in the title).
This sort of linguistic prescriptivism seems in vogue for political reasons lately, most saliently in the hordes of people who insist that you must not use natural anthropomorphic language when talking about LLMs, but that’s far from the only political attempt to control language we’ve seen recently. Let people talk how they want! Langauage is an evolving thing that shouldn’t be controlled by scolds!
Okay, just so I understand you here: you are policing other peoples polcing of language and we must accept your imposition of changes to norms of policing language, currently which means not policing it, except to ensure that nobody polices it. Er, almost nobody.
semiquaver · · focus · HN ↗
But I do have a problem generally with attempts to impose language changes on others (in the case of this post you only see that tendency in the title).
This sort of linguistic prescriptivism seems in vogue for political reasons lately, most saliently in the hordes of people who insist that you must not use natural anthropomorphic language when talking about LLMs, but that’s far from the only political attempt to control language we’ve seen recently. Let people talk how they want! Langauage is an evolving thing that shouldn’t be controlled by scolds!
ButlerianJihad · · focus · HN ↗
switchbak · · focus · HN ↗
Resisting force and asking to keep things as they are is a different thing than forcing people to change their language.