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These reporters know there are CEO’s that sell things like water, food, and energy to huge portions of the population right? Open AI is a blip.

CRConrad 2y ago
> These reporters know The article is an opinion piece by an external contributor; the author is not a reporter. From the end of TFA: > Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He was founder and CEO of machine learning company Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber, and is the author of six books, including the forthcoming Taming Silicon Valley (MIT Press) > there are CEO’s There are CEO’s what; which possession of CEOs are you taking about?
- horns4lyfe 2y ago
  Seriously? You’re going to play this game?
  - racked 2y ago
    Welcome to Hacker News, where studied types do their nitpicking.
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  There's more than one way to use an apostrophe y'know
  - CRConrad 2y ago
    Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.
    - jazzyjackson 2y ago
      In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.
      - CRConrad 2y ago
        ISWYDT, and I don't like it. Hope you're proud of yourself for coming up with it, so at least someone gets something out of it.
      - CRConrad 2y ago
        How does a superfluous apostrophe make anything clearer?
latexr 2y ago
The author is not a reporter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41152161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41152161 And you’re engaging in whataboutism. Actions are not excused or justified by someone else doing something different in another context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

CRConrad 2y ago

> These reporters know The article is an opinion piece by an external contributor; the author is not a reporter. From the end of TFA: > Gary Marcus is a scientist, entrepreneur and bestselling author. He was founder and CEO of machine learning company Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber, and is the author of six books, including the forthcoming Taming Silicon Valley (MIT Press) > there are CEO’s There are CEO’s what; which possession of CEOs are you taking about?

horns4lyfe 2y ago
Seriously? You’re going to play this game?
- racked 2y ago
  Welcome to Hacker News, where studied types do their nitpicking.
jazzyjackson 2y ago
There's more than one way to use an apostrophe y'know
- CRConrad 2y ago
  Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.
  - jazzyjackson 2y ago
    In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.
    - CRConrad 2y ago
      ISWYDT, and I don't like it. Hope you're proud of yourself for coming up with it, so at least someone gets something out of it.
    - CRConrad 2y ago
      How does a superfluous apostrophe make anything clearer?

latexr 2y ago

The author is not a reporter. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41152161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41152161 And you’re engaging in whataboutism. Actions are not excused or justified by someone else doing something different in another context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism