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My brain stopped in surprise after parsing the first half of that headline. "Oslo acquires ChatGPT.."?!

philip1209 3y ago
Norway has the funds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
- n00bskoolbus 3y ago
  Related but mostly in criticism of a dissimilar approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust_Fund#Criticisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust...
- Cort3z 3y ago
  The fund already owns an obscene amount of Microsoft, so they already kind of own it. Edit: typo
gbraad 3y ago
So it was not just me...
schiffern 3y ago
I, for one, welcome our new Norwegian overlords. btw it's called a garden-path sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- subbu 3y ago
  __A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. "Garden path" refers to the saying "to be led down [or up] the garden path", meaning to be deceived, tricked, or seduced.__
- willsmith72 3y ago
  that explanation is far more malicious than the truth, a "google-translate"ism
- rambambram 3y ago
  Nice! I get emails from Meetup with subject texts like "You're the organisator [that this and that Meetup needs]" and every time I open that email to find out what the complete sentence is and am a little bit relieved to find out I'm not an organisator of something by accident. It's on the edge, but not over it. Smart marketing from Meetup. Never knew there was a name for these sentences.
  - djhn 3y ago
    Which part of that is the subject line? Does it include the entire sentence as long as your email client can display it? Or does it literally cut off the sentence mid-point? I would call that misleading and definitely over the edge.
    - rambambram 3y ago
      > "You're the organisator is visible in the overview. > [that this and that Meetup needs]" Is the full sentence visible after clicking.
  - radarsat1 3y ago
    This reminds me of something more innocuous but funny that happens to me. Innocuous because it's not on purpose. When I forget to start Slack and someone sends me a message, Slack sends me an email saying "You have a new direct message in <channel>". Well, it so happens that when I get this, the notification dialog that pops up to tell me about the email is just the right width that it gets cut off as "You have a new dire.." The first several times this happened I went straight to Slack eager to find out what was so important.
- tired-turtle 3y ago
  fwiw the title is not a garden path sentence, as there’s no misleading initial parse.
  - geoelectric 3y ago
    “Acquired” is only really used for the purchase of businesses, at least in headlines, and especially in tech news. The awkward translation is indeed a garden path sentence when delivered to this crowd. About the only real counterargument is that you could also interpret the translation as trading the business for 110,000 students and teachers. That would not be garden path as it would be (accidentally) misleading wording in its entirety!
    - __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
      I think garden pathiness requires not merely that you got the wrong noun (the company itself, not their product), but that you got an entirely different parse tree.
- rho4 3y ago
  could also just call it click-bait
lmm 3y ago
"Sounds like a fair value exchange, I'm a little worried about what sama might be planning to do with those students though."
taneq 3y ago
And they paid in slaves?!
usehand 3y ago
I, for one, stopped at "Oslo acquires ChatGPT for 110k...", in remorse for having missed the opportunity to buy it myself at that price
ojbyrne 3y ago
for 110k students plus some amount of teachers. Lifetime earnings...
veunes 3y ago
Norway is such a successful country, ranking first in the Human Development Index, that it could afford to buy ChatGPT xd
joshspankit 3y ago
Same. I feel like the title is clickbait but also that it’s technically following the rules.

Norway has the funds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

n00bskoolbus 3y ago
Related but mostly in criticism of a dissimilar approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust_Fund#Criticisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Trust...
Cort3z 3y ago
The fund already owns an obscene amount of Microsoft, so they already kind of own it. Edit: typo

gbraad 3y ago

So it was not just me...

schiffern 3y ago

I, for one, welcome our new Norwegian overlords. btw it's called a garden-path sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

subbu 3y ago
__A garden-path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. "Garden path" refers to the saying "to be led down [or up] the garden path", meaning to be deceived, tricked, or seduced.__
willsmith72 3y ago
that explanation is far more malicious than the truth, a "google-translate"ism
rambambram 3y ago
Nice! I get emails from Meetup with subject texts like "You're the organisator [that this and that Meetup needs]" and every time I open that email to find out what the complete sentence is and am a little bit relieved to find out I'm not an organisator of something by accident. It's on the edge, but not over it. Smart marketing from Meetup. Never knew there was a name for these sentences.
- djhn 3y ago
  Which part of that is the subject line? Does it include the entire sentence as long as your email client can display it? Or does it literally cut off the sentence mid-point? I would call that misleading and definitely over the edge.
  - rambambram 3y ago
    > "You're the organisator is visible in the overview. > [that this and that Meetup needs]" Is the full sentence visible after clicking.
- radarsat1 3y ago
  This reminds me of something more innocuous but funny that happens to me. Innocuous because it's not on purpose. When I forget to start Slack and someone sends me a message, Slack sends me an email saying "You have a new direct message in <channel>". Well, it so happens that when I get this, the notification dialog that pops up to tell me about the email is just the right width that it gets cut off as "You have a new dire.." The first several times this happened I went straight to Slack eager to find out what was so important.
tired-turtle 3y ago
fwiw the title is not a garden path sentence, as there’s no misleading initial parse.
- geoelectric 3y ago
  “Acquired” is only really used for the purchase of businesses, at least in headlines, and especially in tech news. The awkward translation is indeed a garden path sentence when delivered to this crowd. About the only real counterargument is that you could also interpret the translation as trading the business for 110,000 students and teachers. That would not be garden path as it would be (accidentally) misleading wording in its entirety!
  - __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
    I think garden pathiness requires not merely that you got the wrong noun (the company itself, not their product), but that you got an entirely different parse tree.
rho4 3y ago
could also just call it click-bait

lmm 3y ago

"Sounds like a fair value exchange, I'm a little worried about what sama might be planning to do with those students though."

taneq 3y ago

And they paid in slaves?!

usehand 3y ago

I, for one, stopped at "Oslo acquires ChatGPT for 110k...", in remorse for having missed the opportunity to buy it myself at that price

ojbyrne 3y ago

for 110k students plus some amount of teachers. Lifetime earnings...

veunes 3y ago

Norway is such a successful country, ranking first in the Human Development Index, that it could afford to buy ChatGPT xd

joshspankit 3y ago

Same. I feel like the title is clickbait but also that it’s technically following the rules.