alt Hacker News> so this was not meant to be an insult / ad hom?
It's not an ad hominem if it actually explains why their opinion should not be presented as a universal statement, or something that others should police their language by (recalling that the comment began with the command "Stop using the word slop."). I think that's pretty obvious.
> calling anything with genai involvement slop, irrespective of their actual quality, is not intentionally negatively generalizing?
I guess, in the sense that all hyperbolic language can be interpreted as negative generalization? That doesn't mean hyperbolic language is useless.
> It's not an ad hominem if it actually explains why their opinion should not be presented as a universal statement, or something that others should police their language by
which it didn't
so "insult" is still on the table btw? wasn't mixing the two, that was a genuine "or" operation there.
> I guess, in the sense that all hyperbolic language can be negative generalization
no, in the sense that you're laundering in your normative stance about the subject into the language you use, robbing other people of the ability to articulate themselves as normal.
meaning might be associated to words within a person, but language works by consensus. they have (at minimum!) every right to bemoan your usage of slop as you do spreading it.
explicit manipulation of others' language not okay, implicit manipulation of others' language is okay?
> That doesn't mean hyperbolic words are useless.
right, that they are not. great?