Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language Family

Re:Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European... by beepbooptheory on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:43PM (#43004908)

I know you have no time, and I don't need a response. I have no skin in this exchange either, fwiw. But I just want to try to unpack here how this could be either a provocation or a noteworthy tangent. Is it that being pessimistic about the future is flamebait? Is it perhaps sneering? Is there anything to be said about the rest of the sentence in question and how its clearly just being a little cheeky? Or is that perhaps whats wrong with it?

Just feels perhaps a little out of place this time that the gp would be in the wrong at all here. But I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

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Re:Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European... by dang on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:05PM (#43005149)

Generic references to "the advent of AI" are already flamebait (ok, proto-flamebait) because the topic is so hot, discussed, and divisive. But casually dropping "and the final decades of our species" as an assumed fact, sort of like the decline of CDs or something, is definitely a provocation. It's unsurprising that someone got activated and then we were off down a generic flamewar tangent.

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