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I love a good tortured acronym: > SHAKEN system, short for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs [...] > The name was inspired by Ian
by Rendello 4mo ago
I love a good tortured acronym:
> SHAKEN system, short for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs [...]
> The name was inspired by Ian Fleming's character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis "shaken, not stirred". STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN "tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
(Unrelatedly, seeing a slash used casually within the URL slug feels so wrong)
- idiotsecant 4mo agoI like backronyms because it tells me someone with a soul was involved
- Rendello 4mo agoLLMs are really good at making backronyms, in fact it might be one of the things they're best at. Try prompting any soulless overlord with "give me a backronym for <WORD> that relates to <SUBJECT>". So maybe it's bad backronyms that demonstrate the soul. I don't know who's idea it was to allow a computer to generate whimsy, that should be interdicted by a fourth law of robotics.
- idiotsecant 4mo agoAgreed. Aggressively whimsical chatbots should be in the Geneva convention somewhere.
- ranger_danger 4mo agoYou agree that LLMs are good at making backronyms yet they still make you feel like a human was involved?