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Please fix the title in HN to match the actual paper's superior title: "What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence?"
by jonny_eh 1y ago
Please fix the title in HN to match the actual paper's superior title: "What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence?"
- dang 1y agoWe don't have an issue with profanity on HN but we do take out clickbait. Edit: ok you guys, I take the point and have put the original title back. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430354.
- adastra22 1y agoReplace it with “what the cuss”?
- dang 1y agoThe word 'fuck' isn't the issue. The issue is that "What the fuck is AGI", as a title, doesn't add anything besides sensationalism to "What is AGI".
- adastra22 1y agoI don’t know. They typically read entirely differently to me, in the sense that what I would expect to see after clicking the link is different. I admit though the in this case “What is AGI?” better matches expectation to reality. Before I noticed the domain, “What the f*ck is AGI?” would have led me to expect more of a technical blog post with a playful presentation rather than the review article it actually is.
- UltraSane 1y agoIt communicates that the paper will probably be a lot less "stuffy" than the typical fancy science PDF
- blooalien 1y ago> "It communicates that the paper will probably be a lot less "stuffy" than the typical fancy science PDF" You pose an excellent point... I tend to agree.
- dang 1y agoI agree with blooalien - that's a great point. To me it doesn't feel quite enough to overcome the baity/provocative effects, but since several commenters have made good points about this, I we might as well put the original title back. I've kept "f*ck" in the title since that's in the original and arguably adds some subtlety in this case. Normally we'd replace it with the real word since we don't like bowdlerisms.