Some Fancy Words

August 2, 2025

"getting stuck" ⟶ "reaching local optima", "bottlenecked", "diminishing marginal return", "involution"
"the same" ⟶ "equivalent", "congruent"
"sorta like" ⟶ "isomorphic", "homomorphic"
"sorta like but different" ⟶ "heteromorphic", "heterogeneous"
"always" ⟶ "invariant"
"it depends" ⟶ "contextual"
"help" ⟶ "catalyze", "incubate", "accelerate", "facilitate", "empower", "synergize"
"how people do things" ⟶ "paradigm", "framework", "methodology", "modus operandi"
"the design" ⟶ "schema", "architecture"
"tell a story" ⟶ "narrative", "cultural artifact", "ideological framework"
"soul, spirit" ⟶ "pnenuma", "psyche", "nous", "anima"
"body" ⟶ "soma", "physique", "corpus"
"can just do things" ⟶ "agentic", "autonomous"
"lazy" ⟶ "uninitiative", "conservative energy allocation", "low agency", "deadline-driven"
"old" ⟶ "legacy", "conventional", "conservativism", "path dependence"
"new" ⟶ "novel", "emergent", "contemporary zeitgeist"
"thing" ⟶ "object", "entity", "model", "module", "component"
"clean up" ⟶ "sanitization", "purge"
"looks clean" ⟶ "uniform", "regularized", "modular", "canonical", "normative"
"spread out" ⟶ "diffuse", "propagate", "distribute", "dissipate", "amortize", "dispatch"
"come together" ⟶ "concentration", "clustering", "convergence", "gravitation", "attraction"
"put together" ⟶ "coalescence", "integration", "aggregation", "merge", "fusion", "hybridization", "synthesis", "amalgamation", "concatenation", "composition", "union", "cohesion", "bound", "assembly", "incorporation", "assimilation", "conglomeration", "compound", "construction", "conjunction"
"can put together" ⟶ "compatiblity", "coherence", "affinity", "interoperability"
"cannot put together" ⟶ "mutual exclusiveness", "incompatibility", "dissonance"
"not together" ⟶ "disjoint", "discrete", "non-differentiable", "disjunction"
"split" ⟶ "decompose", "decouple", "partition", "sharding", "segmentation"
"cut" ⟶ "truncate", "prune", "transect"
"very X" ⟶ "high X"
"not X" ⟶ "low X"
"do a lot of something" ⟶ "intensive"
"related" ⟶ "coupled"
"unrelated" ⟶ "orthogonal"
"most" ⟶ "maximally"
"best" ⟶ "optimal"
"has X" ⟶ "nonzero X"
"doesn't have X" ⟶ "X-free", "minimally X"
"it's high-level" ⟶ "meta", "transcendental", "higher-order"
"in one place" ⟶ "centralized", "authority", "oracle"
"not in one place" ⟶ "distributed", "decentralized"
"the most important thing" ⟶ "kernel", "core", "essence", "principle", "foundation"
"not important" ⟶ "insignificant", "peripheral", "trivia", "paltry"
"edge" ⟶ "periphery", "frontier"
"make it bigger" ⟶ "scaling"
"make it smaller" ⟶ "compression", "contraction"
"it's big" ⟶ "Leviathan"
"how big" ⟶ "scale", "magnitude", "granularity"
"how many" ⟶ "arity", "cardinality", "dimensionality"
"speed" ⟶ "velocity", "momentum", "throughput", "bandwidth"
"level" ⟶ "hierarchy", "stratum", "echelon"
"possibly" ⟶ "plausibly", "coherent", "presumably"
"say" ⟶ "claim", "conjecture", "declare", "articulate"
"know things" ⟶ "situational awareness"
"basically" ⟶ "fundamentally", "essentially"
"random" ⟶ "stochastic", "nondeterministic"
"looks random but not simply random" ⟶ "systematic error"
"where things become different" ⟶ "threshold", "bifurcation", "divergence"
"change" ⟶ "transformation", "morphism", "mutation", "translation", "substitution", "displacement", "shift", "update", "manipulation", "operation", "permutation", "shuffling", "augmentation"
"move" ⟶ "migration", "transfer", "kinetic"
"change other things" ⟶ "externality", "side effect", "by-product"
"chagned things keeps changing" ⟶ "cascade effect", "chain reaction", "feedback loop", "iterative"
"change together" ⟶ "covariant", "aligned", "synchronized", "in tandem"
"keeps going up/down" ⟶ "monotonic"
"gradually stop changing" ⟶ "annealing", "asymptotic", "dampening"
"cannot change" ⟶ "static", "pre-defined", "axiomatic", "deterministic", "conserved", "invariant", "immutable", "constant"
"it doesn't change now" ⟶ "equilbrium", "balance", "homeostasis", "fixed point"
"trap" ⟶ "absorption barrier", "local minima", "potential well"
"fake" ⟶ "proxy", "surrogate", "dissimulation", "virtual", "Trojan"
"real" ⟶ "genuine", "authentic"
"can change" ⟶ "dynamic", "volatile", "stateful", "mutable"
"can change by me" ⟶ "flexibility", "elasticity", "plasticity", "malleability", "scalability"
"what happens next" ⟶ "impact", "ramification", "implication", "second-order effect"
"naturally happens" ⟶ "spontaneous", "inherent"
"I make it happen" ⟶ "induced", "artificial"
"it doesn't last long" ⟶ "temporary", "transient", "ephemeral"
"it will last long" ⟶ "permanent", "persistent", "immortal"
"the thing in the beginning" ⟶ "pristine", "initialization"
"where things come from" ⟶ "origin", "provenance"
"keeps doing on itself" ⟶ "recursive", "iterate", "higher-order"
"at the same time" ⟶ "concurrent", "parallel"
"wait" ⟶ "synchronization"
"both ways" ⟶ "reciprocal"
"one way" ⟶ "crossing Rubicon", "entropy production", "absorption barrier"
"copy" ⟶ "replicate", "clone", "reproduce"
"most basic things" ⟶ "primitives", "atoms"
"keep happening" ⟶ "periodic", "cyclical", "recurrent", "intermittent"
"matching" ⟶ "corresponding", "map to"
"in between" ⟶ "intermediate", "interpolated"
"back and forth" ⟶ "oscillating", "bouncing", "resonant"
"build up" ⟶ "accumulation", "aggregation", "precipitation"
"breaking" ⟶ "degradation", "deterioration", "degeneration", "decomposition", "destabilization", "collapse", "disintegration", "dissociation"
"cannot break apart" ⟶ "atomic"
"can break" ⟶ "vulnerability", "metastability", "Achilles' heel"
"shape" ⟶ "topology", "structure", "morphology", "landscape"
"how much information" ⟶ "information entropy"
"check" ⟶ "validation", "authorization", "evaluation", "verification"
"gonna do that" ⟶ "deferred", "offline", "batched"
"just do it now" ⟶ "immediate", "real-time"
"can work by itself" ⟶ "self-organizing", "homeostatic", "standalone"
"see things" ⟶ "pattern recognition"
"create things" ⟶ "generative modelling"
"think" ⟶ "inference", "reasoning", "deduction"
"remember" ⟶ "memoization", "retention"
"forget" ⟶ "erasure", "decay"
"guess" ⟶ "heuristic"
"learn" ⟶ "generalization", "induction"
"hide" ⟶ "encapsulation", "abstraction", "shadowing"
"flip" ⟶ "inversion", "negation", "contra-", "antithesis", "perverse"
"understand" ⟶ "grok", "internalize"
"I don't understand it" ⟶ "enigmatic", "cryptic", "inscrutable", "chaotic", "perplex"
"no one understands it" ⟶ "emergent characteristic", "chaotic behavior"
"touch something" ⟶ "perturbate", "stir", "interact"
"touches" ⟶ "intersection", "overlap", "collision"
"near" ⟶ "vicinity", "adjacent"
"on outside" ⟶ "ambient", "background", "environmental", "extraneous"
"inside" ⟶ "intrinsic", "inherent", "native", "intra-"
"I cannot see it" ⟶ "latent", "opaque", "intermediate", "implicit", "tacit", "covert", "black-box"
"I can see it" ⟶ "explicit", "exposition", "manifestation", "visualization", "observability"
"see" ⟶ "observation", "input", "perception"
"compare" ⟶ "differential analysis", "cross-section analysis"
"it's everywhere" ⟶ "universal", "pervasive", "omnipresent", "ergodic", "exhaustive"
"it's nowhere" ⟶ "void", "vacuum", "negative X", "absence", "null"
"weird" ⟶ "anomalous", "exceptional", "outlier"
"wrong" ⟶ "errorneous", "ill-defined", "incoherent"
"keeps going closer" ⟶ "asymptotic"
"look ahead" ⟶ "predictive modeling", "Cassandra"
"look back" ⟶ "retrospection", "backtracking"
"look at myself" ⟶ "introspection", "reflection", "metacognition"
"start" ⟶ "initialization", "usher", "commence", "Genesis"
"end" ⟶ "termination", "finalization", "Apocalypse"
"go through" ⟶ "traverse", "navigate", "browse"
"magic" ⟶ "panacea", "silver bullet", "elixir"
"get something out of something" ⟶ "decode", "derive", "extract"
"put something into something" ⟶ "register", "encode", "incorporate", "embed"
"go faster" ⟶ "acceleration", "exponential"
"the things I use" ⟶ "supply chain", "upstream", "infrastructure"
"talk" ⟶ "communication", "information exchange", "IO"
"make two things the same" ⟶ "align", "synchronize", "coerce into", "standarize", "assimilation"
"debt" ⟶ "credit", "leverage", "financial facility"
"buy" ⟶ "acquisition", "procurement"
"sell" ⟶ "liquidation", "divestment", "exit", "recovery"
"cost" ⟶ "overhead", "penalty"
"print money" ⟶ "quantitive easing", "monetary expansion"
"bend the rules" ⟶ "regulatory flexibility", "discretionary enforcement"
"backing" ⟶ "endorsement", "attestation"
"changed mind" ⟶ "updated prior", "stance reorientation", "revision of judgement"
"make people talk about it" ⟶ "memetic"
"advertisement" ⟶ "demand stimulator", "cognitive framing"
"finished" ⟶ "full-blown", "comprehensive"
"haven't finished" ⟶ "proof of concept", "prototype", "unpolished"
"difference" ⟶ "disparity", "divergence", "delta", "discrepancy"
"space" ⟶ "domain", "manifold"
"example" ⟶ "instance", "specimen"
"pattern" ⟶ "motif", "archetype", "template", "stencil"
"block" ⟶ "obstruct", "impede", "inhibit", "handicap"
"time" ⟶ "temporal dimension", "chronology"
"connection" ⟶ "interface", "adapter"
"get rid of something" ⟶ "exclude", "expulse", "discard", "eradicate", "expunge"
"actually use something" ⟶ "application", "operationalization", "adoption", "deployment", "reification", "implementation", "utilization", "exploitation", "activation"
"very good" ⟶ "supreme", "preeminent", "consummate", "quintessential", "sublime"
"on the top" ⟶ "peak", "pinnacle", "apex", "zenith", "apogee", "summit", "empyrean"
"on the bottom" ⟶ "nadir", "baseline", "bedrock"
"it's complex" ⟶ "nuance", "intrincate", "subtle", "cognitive load", "sophistication", "nonlinearity"
"it's simple" ⟶ "trivial"
"user-friendly" ⟶ "ergonomics", "UX"
"become worse" ⟶ "regression", "negative growth"
"manage" ⟶ "scheduling", "orchestration", "arrangement", "scheme", "strategy", "allocation"
"paradise" ⟶ "Shangrila", "Utopia", "Nirvana", "Eden", "Elysium"
"extra things" ⟶ "redundancy", "auxiliary"
"balance" ⟶ "goldilocks"
"care about results" ⟶ "teleological"
"beautiful" ⟶ "aesthetics"