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by jdiff 45 days ago
"X but for Y" has been around for a good long time, it long predates (and I would say is significantly distinct from) "not X, but Y"
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I think they're both "negative parallelism" constructs. Either way, neither are new.

The prose on https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-pos... changed how I think about it: the framework is useful for reasoning, not lazy writing. This bubbles.town submission's title could be light evidence of negative parallelism's utility. (Or, more likely, just the stochastic nature of what's popular when)