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Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by postalrat »

hackerbeat wrote: post #16
12ab3c wrote: post #14

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I think it's an affectation more than anything else. For an educated person typing on devices with, at a minimum, autocorrect for capitalization, I think it has to be a conscious choice. The worst part of me says it is ego/arrogance played off as a casualness or being beyond triviality.

Agreed. "Look, world, I care so little about being dumped, I don't even need to make an effort. Plus, I've got brains and more money than I can count." Next level: Bond villain.

Maybe if all his posts before today weren't all lowercase.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by throw0101b »

nikodotio wrote: post #66
ra0x3 wrote: post #55

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i’ll bite. it might sound dumb to you, but not capitalizing sentences properly amongst certain groups effectively means you’re not concerned with the optics of being viewed as someone who “doesn’t know grammar”. it sort’ve displays a certain “I know proper grammar but I don’t really care to prove it to you”. edit: and as others mention, it can be seen as less formal and friendly as well don’t shoot the messenger :)

personally i just find this easier to read. capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.

> capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.

It can also break meaning though. Try de-capitalizing:

* I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by quixoticaxolotl »

famouswaffles wrote: post #51
swyx wrote: post #49

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orrr he tweets out random stuff and this one happened to line up. this has all the precision of a tarot card

This isn't the only thing he's gotten right, just the latest. Aside from this, You can't drop internal project names or company release dates months and weeks before time without being in the know somehow. Random isn't that good lol.

I mean, the Simpsons has predicted several monumental events multiple times in its history. Random can be just that good.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by famouswaffles »

quixoticaxolotl wrote: post #73
famouswaffles wrote: post #51

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This isn't the only thing he's gotten right, just the latest. Aside from this, You can't drop internal project names or company release dates months and weeks before time without being in the know somehow. Random isn't that good lol.

I mean, the Simpsons has predicted several monumental events multiple times in its history. Random can be just that good.

The Simpsons has a few vaguely similar outcomes over decades of saying random shit.

It's not the same at all.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by hackerbeat »

postalrat wrote: post #71
hackerbeat wrote: post #16

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Agreed. "Look, world, I care so little about being dumped, I don't even need to make an effort. Plus, I've got brains and more money than I can count." Next level: Bond villain.

Maybe if all his posts before today weren't all lowercase.

That makes it even worse. So well-known and so much responsibility, yet so little care. If he can't even be professional when tweeting, why should we trust him with more? Probably good he's gone.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Post by gerdesj »

nabla9 wrote: post #64
gerdesj wrote: post #54

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I disagree. It is either simply lazy or (charitable interpretation) ... lazy. No journo. or professional writer I know would ever forget to hit the shift key for some sort of weird "convenience". It is harder to write all lower case prose. Hit . + and you are primed to hold left shift for the next character with your left or right small finger (pinkie). We humans mostly have five digits per hand. Even a single finger…

All low caps is faster if you need to write as fast as possible. Think news wire people reporting news like "three shots were fired at president kennedy's motorcade in downdown dallas". The old teletype machines had only one case anyway.

I'm 53. Morse and teletype were both well before my time - I did not have to engage with either directly. I recall that a "wire" was sent in all uppercase, with STOP for full stop/period.

My mother used a manual typewriter and then later golf ball etc. I did too. She and I were virtually incapable of not using shift. Smacking physical keys is rather satisfying and you tend to pause first before hitting them. Its a very different discipline to modern word processing. Worrying about case will come very low down the pecking order compared to speling (lol).

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