9mo ago

Might not even have to change the acronym

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9mo ago

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Autistic Individual
- You mother fucker
  
  That's Oedipus. Different guy.
AI is an initialism since you don't pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
- this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
  
  Boom, roasted
- Now this is the kind of pedantry I'm here for
- Wait you do not pronounce AI like a Sopranos character that just found an eye ball on the sidewalk?
- Don't tell me what to do.
  
  Whatever you do, don't follow this advice.
- I always forget this, thanks
- AI is pronounced "ay-eye"
  
  Are ya ready kids!
- Do SQL next!
  
  Correct:
  "Sequel"
  Structured Query Language
  Incorrect:
  "Squall"
  "Es-queue-el"
  The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.
  
  Squeal?
  
  I called this S.Q.L. until our IT guy corrected me
- Is initialism a type of acronym? Or do they have an umbrella term? Surely, they are the same thing, but if initialism has easily string-able sounds it's an acronym (ex. CPU vs. RAM). And some are even both depending on person saying it, like LED.
  
  Other way around.
  An acronym is a type of initialism, which is itself a type of abbreviation.
  So acronyms are initialisms where you pronounce the letters like a word (e.g., RAM), initialisms are abbreviations made by taking the initial letters of multiple words and concatenating them regardless of how it's spoken (e.g. FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation), and an abbreviation is any shortening of a word or phrase into something shorter (e.g., "abbrev." for abbreviation or "US" for United States).
  
  Is pronouncing LED like an acronym common? I've never heard it, and it would take me a while to work out what they're on about if they're talking about "lead"
- This may be a bit prescriptivist. Most people use the word acronym for all of them.
- |ay| checkmate atheists.
- On the other hand everyone says "acronym" even when they know the word "initialism" so I'm not entirely sure you're really completely correct
- TIL (ty)
- It can be pronounced though as I or eye or something.
  
  Yeah you can do that. You would be wrong and people around you would wonder why you switched the subject. But you can do that.
  
  No. That's how we end up with stupid sounding crap like (ugh) "Gooey" for GUI. Just say G-U-I or A-I.
Since ChatGPT learns from internet users, does that mean the majority of internet users are autistic?
- You already know the answer to that one lol
  
  A place known for highly obsessive and weirdly specific knowledge experts? Surely not
As a probably not autistic person, email is one area where warmth is not wanted. Just get to the point, I have a dozen more to get through. And that's precisely why you shouldn't use AI to write email, AI rambles, I want 1-2 sentences, short phrases are fine.
- At my job, Email is either:
  Jira notifications
  Long ramblings about some project or fire that happened
  All other communication is through our chat (zulip, like Slack) or video calls.
  I remember dealing with short emails back in the day. But id flip out these days.
  
  Yup, pretty much the same. If we do get email, they're usually pretty short, or they're corporate nonsense.
- Seriously. I want highly detailed, equally highly concise emails. Send me an email with the topic in the subject and only relevant bullet points in the body and I'll love the hell out of you.
Rua must never have worked tech support. I've been accused of being a robot more times than I can count, years before ChatGPT was even a thing.
- Nice try, robot.
  
  Nice try, AI powered AI detector.
- We've had automated chats for a long time
  
  Yeah, but I'm far more articulate than those things ever were which is what makes it so insulting >:[
For the last time, my name is Al
- Will you be my bodyguard?
  
  I can be your long lost Pal.
- I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI
- ALAN! ALAN!
I just see two autistics attempting to communicate by email.
- Oh shit, that sounds way more fun than casual Friday
- Someone, in a mail including my boss and other managers, complained that my replies were too short
  To which I replied
  'They are as long as they need to be.'
  So she went 'A little warmth would help communication greatly' or some other bullshit.
  So I added automatic top and bottom text to my emails and for the past idk 10 years or so, all my emails start with 'Hi,' and end with 'Cordially.'
Sent from Proton Mail mobile 😭😭😭
- Does that confirm it?
  
  As a Proton user? Definitely.
  
  beyond any doubt
You really cannot blame them. Especially when Universities partner with OpenAI and cut off all ways to contact advisors aside from text and email right before admissions.
If only their next meeting had been on a Tuesday, that would have been the perfect plausibly deniable "fuck you" to end the reply with 😄
Should’ve just said “Ain’t AI. I just dgaf”
It’s work email not a love letter.
Aitistic.
Why aren't you helping the tortoise?
- Never trust a tortoise. Horny bastards.
See you next Friday
- Shoulda said Tuesday
  
  K, I have an Excel sheet that helps me with epitaphs, I'll update it to use next Tuesday if that's the normal
  See you next 1727813501
It's not Ai. I'm just dead inside.
See you next Friday.
I don't get the entitlement. I'd need to see the context for the first message but who cares if a robot penned the message?
Even in annoying circumstances, like if it seems you've been auto-rejected by a bot, you can frame it better than "I demand to see your ~~manager~~ human."
Edit: on review, it's less "entitlement", more "smarmy". Equally annoying.

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