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He edited the comment and linked relevant tweets. I would add this one: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630640058507116553 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s
by narag 4y ago
He edited the comment and linked relevant tweets.
I would add this one:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630640058507116553 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630640058507116553
I had no idea about this drama either, so I didn't understand what Elon was talking about, now it seems clear.
But "Based"? Is it the name of his new AI company? Where does that come from?
- permo-w 4y ago"Based" is slang for "cool" or "in" that's common on 4chan, but I believe has its origins in the 90s offline on 4chan it's largely used to mean something along the lines of "fitting the 4chan anti-groupthink groupthink"
- neom 4y agoI do recall people saying based a lot in the 90s, it meant based in reality.
- moralestapia 4y agoThis is it.
- permo-w 4y agothis sounds much more plausible than the sibling comment's "based on your own beliefs", but plausibility is not necessarily correctness
- hot_gril 4y agoIt originally meant "based on your own beliefs," usually in the context of sticking to your guns despite unpopularity. Which is/was the cool thing to express on 4chan.
- honkler 4y agonah. 4chan learnt it from the rap song "Based God".
- hot_gril 4y agoIt meant the same thing in "Based God." I know 4chan didn't invent the phrase.
- honkler 4y agoBased in that means "being intoxicated with cocaine".
- hot_gril 4y agoLil B said it's both: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based%20God https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based%20God But only because he changed the meaning. Didn't realize there was an older one too.
- junofan 4y agoWhat? It’s from the 80s and means high on crack (freebase) and was re-popularized by Based God like 10–15 years ago.
- hot_gril 4y agoYep, didn't know about the crack meaning. Based God made it what it is today.
- neom 4y agoYeah I had no clue what his deal was, but I decided to search his tweets for "openAI" and it became clear pretty quickly. Interestingly, for the same reason as the article.
- JeremyNT 4y ago"Based" is a catchphrase of the extremely online right. It basically means "cool" but with a subtext of "is annoying to libs/normies who just don't get it." See also "pilled."
- ajkjk 4y agoFor many years it was just a term in gamer culture, I guess it has been repurposed a bit in the last few years.
- numbers_guy 4y agoWords become political when you start injecting politics in them. It originally meant "cool" and had no political connotations to it. It originated on 4chan. And just because some group happens to use a word more frequently doesn't suddenly turn you into a NAZI if you happen to like using the same word.
- the_only_law 4y agoI’m not sure why people are still talking about it as some insular 4chan slang. Like much of 4chan culture, it’s spread to most of the rest of the internet by now. Hell I’ve seen “based” comments on HN.
- numbers_guy 4y agoI shun most of the internet these days. HN and (German) reddit are the only "socials" I use. I have no clue what is happening on the wider Anglo speaking internet, especially Twitter and such is completely alien to me.
- JeremyNT 4y agoThe thing about language is that it isn't static, it changes over time. Sometimes a previously dominant usage will become eclipsed by a new one that emerges. There's nuance to the etymology of any word of course. In fact I sometimes see the extremely online left try to (ironically?) appropriate "based." But I think in the context we can all figure out which connotation Elon was using.
- projektfu 4y agoWith the baseball bat it evokes Kyle Chapman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chapman_(American_activist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chapman_(American_activis...
- root_axis 4y ago> But "Based"? Is it the name of his new AI company? Where does that come from? It's a reference to the BasedGPT "jailbroken" ChatGPT persona that responds to answers in a less politically correct manner.