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> The technologists who create it believe they should control it I think there's an interesting phenomenon where it is _not_ the people who control it, but ins
by sealeck 4mo ago
> The technologists who create it believe they should control it
I think there's an interesting phenomenon where it is _not_ the people who control it, but instead a kind of international finance man cum-captain of industry (perhaps best embodied by Sam Altman) who does not create the technology and yet has ended up wielding the levers.
- SilverElfin 4mo ago> a kind of international finance man cum-captain of industry (perhaps best embodied by Sam Altman) What the hell is a “cum-captain”? Search isn’t helping.
- huhkerrf 4mo agoProbably this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cum https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cum I.e. finance man as well as captain of industry
- whimsicalism 4mo agothe correct usage is dashes on both sides of the word, the usage above was extra confusing because it was incorrect
- sealeck 4mo agoAs in cum-"captain of industry"
- froh 4mo agonon native speaker here - I don't get it.
- HappMacDonald 4mo agoIt's an old English word (predating the sexual connotation): cum - Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another. Basically nobody uses that language construct anymore until you run headlong into it in a Hackernews comment or something
- ARandomerDude 4mo ago“cum” (rhymes with “broom”, rather than “dumb”) is Latin for “with”.
- curio_Pol_curio 4mo agothat's when it appears cum "laude" (eg) in commonwealth (seniors in everyday UK, HR and pedants otherwise) usage it rhymes with dumb, like you'd expect https://youtu.be/RzESsmv5FhM https://youtu.be/RzESsmv5FhM Radcliff-cum-Chackmore
- anigbrowl 4mo agoNo it isn't. It's Latin.
- froh 4mo agoonly the ethymology is latin. the use combining role names is old English, indeed.
- froh 4mo agothank you! this was most helpful to lead me into asking the right question. https://share.google/aimode/dDekJEZzfKaE6FCvH https://share.google/aimode/dDekJEZzfKaE6FCvH
- whimsicalism 4mo agoI use it, but you're supposed to hyphenate on both sides so this usage was incorrect.
- LtWorf 4mo agoI suspect they mean "with" but in latin. But I'm not entirely sure.
- hunterpayne 4mo agoThat's correct
- anigbrowl 4mo ago'cum' is latin for 'with', and it is commonly hyphenated when inserted in between other words. It's also a slang word for semen, but that's not relevant here.