Hacker News with Generative AI: Semantics

Most "Investing" Is Just Speculation (vincentschmalbach.com)
The words people choose often reveal more about how they want to be perceived than what they're actually doing. Take the term "investing" - it implies not just sophistication and careful analysis, but also suggests a contribution to economic growth and societal progress.
Mathematical meaning is not captured by meaning-as-use (willzeng.com)
“The meaning of a word is its use in the language.” - Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Gravity is not a force (superposer.substack.com)
The debate about whether gravity is a force since it has just flared up yet again so I thought now would be a good time to give Substack a start, and wade in. The debate is partly semantics, and sometime a bit of physics-trolling but it’s weirdly heated, I think because it hinges on differing attitudes to geometry and field theory.
Programming language semantics: It's easy as 1,2,3 [pdf] (nott.ac.uk)