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1. valley+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-02-08 22:45:15
The article starts, "Nestled in the hills of Mountain View", which is worrisome, because as anyone with even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley geography knows, Mountain View is mostly flat. And Google's Mountain View offices are located on reclaimed baylands, which are especially flat.

I wonder if the article authors were thinking of Xerox PARC's offices in Palo Alto's hills? Or the road named "Sand Hill Road" that used to have some venture capitalist offices? Other than those offices I can't think of any significant hill-based offices in Silicon Valley.

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2. belval+zc[view] [source] 2023-02-08 23:43:36
>>valley+(OP)
The Economist is British so it's possible the person writing this has never been to the Bay Area and just made a wordplay based on "Mountain View".
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3. foobie+Ud[view] [source] 2023-02-08 23:50:53
>>valley+(OP)
Shoreline is kind of hilly even if the hills are landfill.
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4. rconti+Pg[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-09 00:08:02
>>foobie+Ud
"Smelly hills of Shoreline" doesn't have quite the same ring to it
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5. crazyg+7o[view] [source] 2023-02-09 00:51:09
>>valley+(OP)
Ha, they have since changed it to "Near the bay in Mountain View".
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6. bee_ri+Lu[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-09 01:36:12
>>foobie+Ud
A shore is kind of like a hill, just wet.
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7. foobie+8z[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-09 02:05:38
>>rconti+Pg
Truly for that you want to head to Milpitas. I wonder how the economist would describe that. “The fragrant town of Milpitas, adjacent to the unappreciated Asbestos Gem of Alviso…”
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8. Bonobo+ZH[view] [source] 2023-02-09 03:25:21
>>valley+(OP)
ChatGPT had obviously some misunderstanding of the landscape ;-)
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9. Dalewy+nY[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-09 06:24:43
>>belval+zc
Journalists writing bullshit straight out of their asses is certainly nothing new in this day and age.
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10. hcks+s61[view] [source] 2023-02-09 07:44:39
>>valley+(OP)
That’s because these models are not grounded in the physical world, they’re just bullshit machines trained on text
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11. anothe+W71[view] [source] 2023-02-09 07:56:51
>>valley+(OP)
It was probably generated by GPT.
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12. Phiwis+C81[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-09 08:05:54
>>Dalewy+nY
I do think there is worse bullshit to be concerned by than whether or not a British tech writer has physically stood in Mountain View, though. I thought the beauty of the internet was in reducing the significance of that sort of thing.
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13. bobsil+Hb1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-02-09 08:33:04
>>foobie+8z
“… with that salt pond stink”
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14. ur-wha+Ve2[view] [source] 2023-02-09 15:18:14
>>valley+(OP)
> Mountain View is mostly flat.

Well ... Not a big one, I grant you, but hill nevertheless :

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4231911,-122.084872,3a,75y,1...

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