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> This isn’t ‘engineering’ The English words "engineering" and "engineer (v)" have multiple meanings, including the following: engineering [n] 3: calcul

by aix1 4y ago

> This isn’t ‘engineering’ The English words "engineering" and "engineer (v)" have multiple meanings, including the following: engineering [n] 3: calculated manipulation or direction (as of behavior) "social engineering" engineer [transitive verb] 2a: to contrive or plan out usually with more or less subtle skill and craft "engineer a business deal" 2b: to guide the course of "engineer a rally" To me, the term "prompt engineering" reads along these lines rather than "the application of science and mathematics..." or "the design and manufacture of complex products". Source for the above definitions: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineer https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineer https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineering https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engineering

noduerme 4y ago
I "doctored" yesterday's french fries with some chili, cheese, and chopped onions. Does that make me a doctor?
- aix1 4y ago
  This is a straw man argument. Nowhere did I say anything about anyone being called an engineer.
  - noduerme 4y ago
    Doesn't context matter? If I went on a site mostly used by doctors to discuss medicine and posted my guide to doctoring french fries, wouldn't that sort of implicitly be saying I consider myself to be a doctor too? Wouldn't it either be offensive or a joke, if not an offensive joke?
    - groby_b 4y ago
      No. Most human beings are aware of immediate context, and are more focused on mutual collaboration than nitpicking linguistics. An "I doctored my fries" post on a medical discussion site would at best be a mild chuckle, and everybody would move on. They'd especially move on if most of the people on the page weren't actual doctors, they just called themselves that.
      - noduerme 4y ago
        Cool. What about a post called "getting better MRI results"? With helpful tips about how to adjust a machine they didn't understand and implying they were better equipped to read it than the people who understood both anatomy and how the machine worked? Would context matter then? Hold on, let me answer that for you. They'd be called a jackass and laughed out of the room.
jameshart 4y ago
Alright, yes, it’s possible to define witchcraft as ‘arcane engineering’ It’s still witchcraft.

by aix1 4y ago

noduerme 4y ago

I "doctored" yesterday's french fries with some chili, cheese, and chopped onions. Does that make me a doctor?

aix1 4y ago
This is a straw man argument. Nowhere did I say anything about anyone being called an engineer.
- noduerme 4y ago
  Doesn't context matter? If I went on a site mostly used by doctors to discuss medicine and posted my guide to doctoring french fries, wouldn't that sort of implicitly be saying I consider myself to be a doctor too? Wouldn't it either be offensive or a joke, if not an offensive joke?
  - groby_b 4y ago
    No. Most human beings are aware of immediate context, and are more focused on mutual collaboration than nitpicking linguistics. An "I doctored my fries" post on a medical discussion site would at best be a mild chuckle, and everybody would move on. They'd especially move on if most of the people on the page weren't actual doctors, they just called themselves that.
    - noduerme 4y ago
      Cool. What about a post called "getting better MRI results"? With helpful tips about how to adjust a machine they didn't understand and implying they were better equipped to read it than the people who understood both anatomy and how the machine worked? Would context matter then? Hold on, let me answer that for you. They'd be called a jackass and laughed out of the room.

jameshart 4y ago

Alright, yes, it’s possible to define witchcraft as ‘arcane engineering’ It’s still witchcraft.