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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I feel like that’s one of those things where the conversational use of chemicals and scientific use has drifted apart

There’s plenty of examples but the only one I can think of is evolution, like In every terrible sci-fi movie ever using evolution to describe the individual evil monster gaining some change

Anyways 100% agree with you tho

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The word theory is another one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I find myself thinking this a lot. Someone goes; "and that's my theory about..." And I'm like; that's not a theory, that's a hypothesis...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like how some creationists try to dispell evolution by saying that it's only a theory.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk if that helps your point as it’s simultaneously one of the most studied and least understood things in physics. Although I doubt a creationist could mount that argument.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The point is it's not just a guess with no evidence which is what they think a theory is.

If they came back with that you try and explain that's why it's called a theory and not a fact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But that's just a theory, a gaaaame theory

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Matpat is a fascist piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

AI. In the real world, AI is any computer process that can make decisions as if it were smart. Expert systems, genetic algorithms, hell even fuzzy logic. A smart lightbulb is artificially smart. Artificially intelligent.

In movies and bad tech blogs, AI means a sapient machine and that's why LLMs aren't actually AI.