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Posted by dsr12 11 hours ago

What 81,000 people want from AI(www.anthropic.com)
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pissedoffadmin 9 hours ago|
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verisimi 9 hours ago|
> 80,508 people

Not 81,000 as it says in the title. I know I'm being nitpicky, but I wouldn't round up to 81k. Surely the 'important number' in this case is 80, so you would round down to that. Then let the reader pleasantly discover you had interviewed ~500 more than you stated.

It's funny to me when someone does this sort of minor hyperbole that's verging on lying - you have to wonder what is going on.

cpburns2009 3 hours ago|
80,000, 81,000, 80,500, and 80,510 are all valid ways to round 80,508 depending on the number of significant digits you want to preserve. For a number in the tens of thousands, it's natural to round to the nearest thousand which is appropriately 81k.