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17 October 2024

16 October 2024

14 October 2024

  • 20:3620:36, 14 October 2024 diff hist +368 N Conversational Singularity Created page with "Someone's 'singularity' is the topic that all conversations with them always tend towards. No matter what you start out talking about, Eliezer Yudkowsky will start talking about AGI risks, Elon Musk will start talking about Mars, and I will start talking about organ donation. Coined by my buddy [https://x.com/charlesgardens Charles Giardina] Category:Concepts"

11 October 2024

10 October 2024

9 October 2024

  • 20:5620:56, 9 October 2024 diff hist +144 Ancient Neologisms No edit summary
  • 20:5520:55, 9 October 2024 diff hist +2,382 N Ancient Neologisms Created page with "Some neologisms seem like they've been around forever. Some people even believe that they've been around and describe their grandparents using them and so on, in some kind of Mandela Effect but they are nonetheless neologisms. I don't have a comprehensive list, obviously, but here are a couple. == Sweet Summer Child == Most commonly in "Oh you sweet summer child". The use of it to disparagingly mean "innocent and naïve" is decidedly from..."
  • 20:4220:42, 9 October 2024 diff hist +4,810 N The Prisoner, Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker Created page with "''The Prisoner'' by Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker is a frequently-cited source of the use of the phrase "sweet summer's child". It is from the collection of poems ''The Creole''<ref>Mary Scrimzeour Furman Whitaker, ''Poems'', J.B. Nixon, printer, 1850, 296 pages, digitized December 5, 2007, from Harvard University. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poems/mGQSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Google Books]</ref> <blockquote> Within a prison, pent, he stood, <br/> Dread Gulio,—that..." current
  • 20:2420:24, 9 October 2024 diff hist +4 m The West Wind, James Staunton Babcock No edit summary
  • 20:2420:24, 9 October 2024 diff hist +1,871 N The West Wind, James Staunton Babcock Created page with "The West Wind by James Staunton Babcock<ref>James Staunton Babcock, ''Visions and Voices'', American Antiquarian Society Collections, 1849. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Visions_and_Voices/1xA_AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Google Books]</ref> is a poem frequently cited for its first use of the phrase "sweet summer child": <blockquote> Thou comest, summer breeze,<br/> With life and music on the air;<br/> I trace thee thro' those tossing trees,<br/> But where's thy dwelli..."

24 September 2024

21 September 2024

  • 07:5007:50, 21 September 2024 diff hist +867 N Ablative Error Created page with "An Ablative Error is something you intentionally introduce so that it can be fixed by a process or person who needs to fix things irrespective of whether they need fixes. By providing a simple and weak target, you allow them to fulfill their inner urge while not damaging the thing that needs to be built. People with authority do not have to employ this technique since they can simply reject 'fixes'. People without are frequently governed in large organizations by th..."
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