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> "We don't really know what this is good for, but spent a lot of money and time making it and are under intense pressure to announce new things right now. If y

> "We don't really know what this is good for, but spent a lot of money and time making it and are under intense pressure to announce new things right now. If you can figure something out, we need you to help us." Where is this quote from?

hotpocket777 2y ago
It’s not a quote. It is an interpretation or reading of a quote.
- jejeyyy77 2y ago
  [flagged]
- cogman10 2y ago
  Perhaps even fed through an LLM ;)
scythe 2y ago
I believe it's a "translation" in the sense of Wittgenstein's goal of philosophy: >My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
- Nition 2y ago
  Another great example on Hacker News is this old translation of Google's "Amazing Bet": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793033
dd3boh 2y ago
I think it's supposed to be a translation of what OpenAI's quote means in real world terms.
thih9 2y ago
The quotation marks in the grandparent comment are scare (sneer) quotes and not actual quotation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes > Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations.
- topaz0 2y ago
  That's not a scare quote. It's just a proposed subtext of the quote. Sarcastic, sure, but no a scare quote, which is a specific kind of thing. (from your linked wikipedia: "... around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.")
  - glenstein 2y ago
    Right. I don't agree with the quote, but it's more like a subtext thing and it seemed to me to be pretty clear from context. Though, as someone who had a flagged comment a couple years ago for a supposed "misquote" I did in a similar form in style, I think hn's comprehension of this form of communication is not super strong. Also the style more often than not tends towards low quality smarm and probably should be resorted to sparingly.
- robwwilliams 2y ago
  As in “reading between the lines”.

hotpocket777 2y ago

It’s not a quote. It is an interpretation or reading of a quote.

jejeyyy77 2y ago
[flagged]
cogman10 2y ago
Perhaps even fed through an LLM ;)

scythe 2y ago

I believe it's a "translation" in the sense of Wittgenstein's goal of philosophy: >My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

Nition 2y ago
Another great example on Hacker News is this old translation of Google's "Amazing Bet": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793033

dd3boh 2y ago

I think it's supposed to be a translation of what OpenAI's quote means in real world terms.

thih9 2y ago

The quotation marks in the grandparent comment are scare (sneer) quotes and not actual quotation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes > Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations.

topaz0 2y ago
That's not a scare quote. It's just a proposed subtext of the quote. Sarcastic, sure, but no a scare quote, which is a specific kind of thing. (from your linked wikipedia: "... around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.")
- glenstein 2y ago
  Right. I don't agree with the quote, but it's more like a subtext thing and it seemed to me to be pretty clear from context. Though, as someone who had a flagged comment a couple years ago for a supposed "misquote" I did in a similar form in style, I think hn's comprehension of this form of communication is not super strong. Also the style more often than not tends towards low quality smarm and probably should be resorted to sparingly.
robwwilliams 2y ago
As in “reading between the lines”.