Re:I decompiled the White House's new app
by ghywertelling on Sunday March 29, 2026 @01:16AM
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There is a new term "load-bearing" which is used a lot in my usage of AI. Has anyone else encountered this term being used a lot in their conversations? Or is it a quirk of personalization?
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I've heard it a lot from podcasts that are towards the abundance movement. I think its common within the rationalise movement.
Personally I really like it for "load-bearing assumptions". Because it let's you work with assumptions whilst pointing out the potential issues of that assumption.
I use load-bearing all the time in conversation. People need to be careful that just because they don’t use certain phrases, it doesn’t automatically mean AI.
I use it all the time, but almost always sarcastically (as in "load-bearing tinyproxy instance").
Re:I decompiled the White House's new app
by codefreakxff on Sunday March 29, 2026 @07:40AM
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just what an AI bot would say! ;)
been getting a lot of "load-bearing" and "roll your own" lately.
us humans, even if kinda trash at many things, are pretty rad at pattern recognition.
Re:I decompiled the White House's new app
by dist-epoch on Sunday March 29, 2026 @05:14AM
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There are also fashions. So people could be using "load-bearing" more because it's fashionable. Like "lets double-click on that", or "spinning rust", etc
Both you and parent are making a lot of load-bearing assumptions.
As someone who likes to use a lot of em dashes in writing -- the 'heuristics' that AI 'hunters' like to use need a lot of further refinement before I would trust them with anything. And yet there are legions of anti-AI crusaders out there wielding them like weapons.
These folks are reinforcing a bias against all kinds of people, particularly those who are not native English speakers and were very likely taught 'globalized' English in their language training.