Here's yet another, quite different, meaning, which I heard used by a researcher at an AI company:
Or perhaps more abstractly:
I don't like that meaning because it's not really about quality at all, or at most it's about one narrow aspect of the output's quality. But it seemed clear that those verbal tics are what the person had in mind when they explained t...
Yes indeed. Wellerstein lays out the evidence from that speech in a 2018 post, and has a 2014 post offering an explanation of how Truman got that misconception in the first place. The two of those together convinced me that Truman really was confused about the fact that Hiroshima was a city full of civilians, and thought it was a military base.
The speech was a radio address the evening of August 9, after the Nagasaki bombing. Truman and others wrote and revised it in the days before that, on the ship home from Europe after the Potsdam conference. A draft s...
Certainly Napoleon benefitted from people thinking he was for progress and reason. Many intellectuals elsewhere in Europe saw him that way… until he showed up in their country, pillaged the countryside, installed one of his brothers etc. as the new king, and brutally suppressed dissent. Then they tended to change their mind.
All of which was pretty far from anything the founders of the French Revolution thought they were trying to make happen, to bring it back to the point habryka was making in mentioning Napoleon.
I think an even clearer aspect is Napoleon'...
Rich Dad Poor Dad was a book, whose author worked for years to build it up into a brand. That's very different from a Google doc, which is what Zach was contrasting with.