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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by Buttons840 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @07:40AM (#31788989)
Many arguments boil down to the definition of a word. Talking about definitions seems worthwhile.

We've all heard there are facts and opinions, but there's a 3rd category I think: definitions.

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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by concordDance on Saturday June 18, 2022 @12:19PM (#31791249)
> Many arguments boil down to the definition of a word.

And this is awful :(

It's normally the Worst Argument in the World: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...

Arguing about whether a definition is particularly useful or outlines a cluster of similar things can be good, but it's rare.

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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by uejfiweun on Saturday June 18, 2022 @03:45PM (#31793115)
The mods deleted the other thread, but basically what this guy was doing was Sealioning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Certainly sometimes it's good to debate a word but this crossed the line into incessant requests for people to do work to come up with ever more definitions and citations.

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