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Depends on who started the escalator.

• sscaryterry 13d ago
  Escalators do not start themselves. There is power, and a switch of some sort.
• mort96 13d ago
  .. what exactly depends on who started the escalator? My comment was in support of the argument that the word "let" does not imply agency on the part of the object in a sentence. Does the semantics of the word "let" depend on who started the escalator??
  • teiferer 13d ago
    If there is an escalator that is known for killing every 1000's person using it then the operator who started it is more guilty than the folks using it for those deaths, don't you think?
    • mort96 13d ago
      I made no argument about guilt. I made an argument about the semantics of the word "let".
• deleted 13d ago
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• ropable 12d ago
  In this metaphor, OpenAI/Anthropic literally started the escalator.