Every escape hatch is a pit trap

As the title says.

Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined by a person or group, often with a pretty good definition, but then gets spread through the wider community in a way that weakens that definition. This weakening risks losing the definition entirely - and with it any usefulness to the term.

via: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-angels-and-demons-of-nondeterminism/

It’s a primary school homework question which causes disagreement among seasoned mathematicians.

Great discussion of geometry, semantics, and argumentation stemming from what otherwise feels like an obvious question.