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		jounker 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war It’s not a linguistic coincidence. The disease is named after the animal.

bee_rider 7 months ago [–]

The coincidence is that all animals evolve in a crab-shaped direction (as the meme goes), and all tech companies evolve in a cancer-shaped direction.

That these two “inevitable endpoint things” would happen to be linguistically closely related was unlikely.

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