Semantic Seeding

The act of deliberately planting terms, phrases, or concepts into the digital world so that they spread, get picked up by algorithms, and eventually become part of everyday language. Unlike regular SEO, which just makes things easier to find, semantic seeding shapes how people (and AIs) talk about stuff in the first place. It’s about influencing the categories and meanings themselves.

“Dude, that phrase didn’t just trend by accident—it was straight-up semantic seeding.”

by LexicalBandit September 8, 2025

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

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

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

semantic

1. a number that just increases every time someone does something, because doing things properly is hard.

Ive just made a code change. I expect semantic versioning to automatically increment, because bumping a version up (0.0.1 -> 0.0.2) by 1 is hard.

by anonymous April 20, 2023

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

Anti-Semantic

When people are upset by the choice of words you use. Can be used as a noun or adjective.

For example, if you were to use “death” to describe “dismantling an institution”, and someone takes offence. They were to say, “hey saying death to an institution is just as bad as murdering babies and committing genocide.”You could call that person an Anti-Semantic. Or you could say their views are Anti-Semantic.

by Words are okay June 30, 2025