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Re:Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an ... by krainboltgreene on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:10AM (#40065800)
> The problem is that scam has certain meaning and if we use scam more liberally we dilute the meaning

Language is not something you can manipulate so easily and you absolutely cannot fight language changing, but also I promise that no one is diluting the meaning "scam".

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Re:Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an ... by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:33PM (#40067015)
Saying google is scam similar to theranos/FTX dilutes the word scam.
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Re:Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an ... by krainboltgreene on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:02AM (#40073680)
If my boss uses my social security number to get a credit card it's not "diluting" the word fraud just because SBF also did fraud at a much larger scale.

But like sure, tilt at that windmill.

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Re:Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an ... by akaru on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:11AM (#40076462)
No kidding. I get the sentiment but the argument doesn’t hold water. A scam is a scam. There are big scams and small. There are lies big and small too. We can even call the small ones white lies. But they are still lies.
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