{"id":17515,"date":"2018-07-16T09:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17515"},"modified":"2018-07-17T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:05:38","slug":"game-typo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/07\/16\/game-typo\/","title":{"rendered":"Game typo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><cite>Ars Technica<\/cite> reports: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/07\/a-years-old-one-letter-typo-led-to-aliens-colonial-marines-awful-ai\/\">A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines\u2018 weird AI<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I mention this for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>I\u2019m amused that a typo can make such a big difference. Another reason the world needs editors! Or at least proofreaders. Or at least code that doesn\u2019t necessarily silently discard unfamiliar words. (In some contexts, like the web, silently discarding unfamiliar words is hugely useful, but I feel like in this context, a compiler or linter or something should\u2019ve given a warning.)<\/li>\r\n  <li>I\u2019m amused that (at least at the time of publication), <cite>Ars<\/cite>\u2019s headline includes a backwards-facing apostrophe. Which is kind of an example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/04\/11\/hhhyphen-comments\/\">Hartman\u2019s Law<\/a> in action. (Edited to add: They later fixed the typo, but I\u2019m leaving it intact in my copy of the headline, above.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17538,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions\/17538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}