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SEMANTIC FIDELITY

How well a message preserves its core meaning as it moves through filters, algorithms, translations, or people. High fidelity means the intent survives. Low fidelity means the words still look right but the meaning has drifted.
“I told him I needed support, and he sent me a link to a productivity hack. Zero semantic fidelity.”
by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions November 5, 2025
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Semantic redirector

“If you’re reading this, someone got you to look it up. That’s their secret power.”

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by Mr Ocean July 30, 2025
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Semantics

A type of lice that affects your pubic area. They burrow into your urethra and make their way to the testicles (hence the term "semantics", a portmanteau of "semen" and "ticks"). They find their way in by tracking the scent of semen, therefore they exclusively affect biological males with working reproductive organs. They can make their way in other sexual genitals if they detect the scent but the unfamiliar environment that is not condusive to their survival will likely kill them. They can spread through shared seating areas and undergarments.
"Bro. Chelsea asked me to sit on her face last night and now I have semantics."
by BJSD808 March 20, 2022
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semantic satiation

Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon where repeating a word or phrase many times causes it to temporarily lose its meaning, making it sound like a meaningless collection of sounds. This occurs because repeated activation of a neural pathway to a word's meaning can cause temporary fatigue or inhibition, leading the brain to re-regulate its focus and temporarily cease to process the word's meaning.
I kept repeating the word 'crowded' over and over for a minute, and by the end, it just sounded like a weird noise—total semantic satiation!
by Emotional Cruiser October 12, 2025
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Latent Neurolese Semantic Encoder

A neural architecture that performs semantic compression using nuclear diversity preservation, operating in pure vector space to bypass linguistic tokenization while maintaining conceptual understanding. The system compresses high-dimensional embeddings (e.g., 384D → 256D) through a teacher-student knowledge distillation framework that employs extreme weighting to prevent mode collapse, creating mathematical "semantic GPS coordinates" where related concepts cluster in measurable dimensional neighborhoods.
The Latent Neurolese Semantic Encoder achieved 6x inference speedup and 35% memory reduction while maintaining 63.5% semantic preservation through its nuclear diversity training methodology, demonstrating that AI systems can reason directly with compressed mathematical concepts rather than linguistic tokens.
by Trentism July 9, 2025
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Semantic Drift

When words stop meaning what they used to. Over time, phrases get watered down, co-opted, or twisted until they lose their original punch. Think “literally,” “authentic,” or “disruption.”
Startup bros calling every idea ‘disruptive’ is just semantic drift in action.
by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions September 4, 2025
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empty semantics

An insult derived from an irrelevant but pithy-sounding technical term. Combining the perjorative and jargon terms feigns a deep, smart reason for refusing to shed ignorance.
James felt fearful and unaccustomed to using his own mind and habitually ceased his thinking at the perimeter of his peer group's established belief system. When someone posted an article with ideas threatening its gossamer bonds, his instinct for conservation drove him to cry, "Empty semantics!"
by facebook_is_the_best November 6, 2017
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