“decimate” is one of those relatively rare words where the literal meaning is much less scary than the figurative meaning.
The literal meaning does actually include killing people and nobody at OpenAI got killed.
Isn’t it the opposite? To decimate = to kill 1 in 10 soldiers, figuratively to remove a certain fraction of elements from a set.
Figuratively it is used as “to kill 9 in 10”.
“decimate” is one of those relatively rare words where the literal meaning is much less scary than the figurative meaning.
The literal meaning does actually include killing people and nobody at OpenAI got killed.
Isn’t it the opposite? To decimate = to kill 1 in 10 soldiers, figuratively to remove a certain fraction of elements from a set.
Figuratively it is used as “to kill 9 in 10”.