Steven Sinofsky
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first heard Feb 2025
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Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, because that's how you get attention in academia.
Your paper has a cool title and all that.
So it's no surprise that something that had its roots in academia carried forth all of this terminology.
But it's just time to stop.
Like, the terminology is driving people apart because people...
presume a vast amount of stuff when you use metaphor or allegory or anthropomorphism, and it's just not true.
Like, this stuff is not acting with any of the verbs that it says.
It's not...
It's goal-seeking in this old-school technical sense that it, oh, well, there's a curve and it's trying to get to the min or to the max, and that's goal-seeking in those terms.
But it's not.
When a normal person like a congressman hears goal-seeking,
They think of a person trying to get an A in college.
And then when they hear cheating, they hear that they did the thing you're not allowed to do.
And when they hear secretly coordinating, they think of spies invading a country.
They don't think of two pieces of software with a semaphore, which is just another form of secretly coordinating.
Yeah, all the language is absolutely destroying this dialogue.
And look, the very beginning of the word computer virus was kind of a fluke, but it turns out it happened at exactly the wrong time.
It happened right when AIDS and HIV were a thing.
So virus was like in the air everywhere.
So if you listen to the computer hearings from the 1980s about the first viruses, they're scary in that context because people are literally thinking about death, but that's not at all what was happening.
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