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Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by justrealist »

sushisource wrote: post #5

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

There's some Picasso quote about like, you have to demonstrate you can follow the rules before you can break the rules.

Grammar and punctuation is a competence signal, but once you've demonstrated you can do it (by getting to the top) it's not necessary.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by timeon »

lostlogin wrote: post #13
squigz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They arguably have more to prove than most people, since they're under much more constant scrutiny

And going with this, they use their time wisely, not to add punctuation to boilerplate tweets.

why even tweet

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Post by thelittleone »

sushisource wrote: post #5

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

Reminds me of when drivers of expensive cars don't indicate when changing lanes.

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Post by chmod775 »

stranded22 wrote: post #20
sushisource wrote: post #5

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

I’ve had a few company’s I’ve dealt with where the ceo writes: name hi, And it really throws me - I’m spending hours ensuring my emails / communication covers all angles and then they reply with this salutation.

Where I come from that means you can adopt a looser style as well, and don't need to bother writing formally with that person. It's considered "friendly".

In fact in German it would be really awkward if one person stuck to formal language when the other makes an attempt to be informal - sticking to it is like saying "keep your distance" and could be a little hurtful for the person who tried to be informal.

I'm curious how this is supposed to play out in English.

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Post by asfarley »

sushisource wrote: post #5

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

Not needing to add padding is a form of status signaling

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

sushisource wrote: post #5

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

I guess this can be considered a Machine Learning question. At least I assume we can try to answer it using linear regression.

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Post by enumjorge »

solardev wrote: post #8
sushisource wrote: post #5

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

It's the same reason Zucky wears a hoodie and Musk smokes blunts on TV. they dgaf :)

I think it's less that they dgaf, and more that they are working really hard to create a personal brand of someone who dgaf.
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