r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
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u/pcbforbrains 12h ago

I am 43 years old and only this week did I understand what this phrase meant. It means that you can either physically possess cake, or you can eat your cake - but at that point, you won't have cake anymore. Take that as you will.

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u/Simon_Drake 12h ago

Which is why the Unabomber thought the phrase was backwards. You can have your cake and also eat it, as long as you do it in that order. But if you eat it then you no longer have it. So the phase should be "You can't eat your cake and have it".

And putting weird phrases like that in his manifesto was a sortof linguistic fingerprint that made people say "Hey I know a guy who says crazy shit just like that..."

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u/Hairy_Difficulty2562 11h ago

he kinda has a point about the phrase being backwards though

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u/Save_Canada 11h ago

He had a point about a lot of things. Dude was brilliant, and a psycho

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u/RMCPhoto 8h ago

If the cake bit strikes a chord with you, I'd stop reading there.

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u/Rich_Housing971 6h ago

That's a very common mistake people make. it's like saying "ATM Machine" and "Could've" are fingerprinting techniques that the average person would be able to pick up on.

The wife picked up on his IDEAS from his manifesto. Not from phrases he used.

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u/homerjaythompson 11h ago

It took me far too late into life to understand the as well. Probably because nowadays we often use "have" to mean "eat", leading to confusion between having your cake and eating your cake, which can be essentially synonymous colloquially. Which may not have been the case when the phrase originated.

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u/vexatious-big 11h ago

It's a silly phrase which I always disliked, and I think it makes more sense backwards. I.e. Eat it and have it at the same time. It's somehow more logical.