2026.10.13
prescriptive linguist: agnostic actually means someone whose worldview holds the universe is inherently unknowable. it's completely separate from whether or not they believe in a god or gods
descriptive linguist: most people who use the word agnostic are using it to describe a middle-ground between atheism and theism. that's a valid usage, even if it's drifted from the technical philosophical definition
agnostic linguist: nobody knows what the word agnostic means
The problem isn't that robots are taking over our jobs, the problem is that we've created a world where that's somehow a bad thing.