it’s usually a joke word used to self-deprecate (though sometimes to insult friends) and usually abbreviated “degen”
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Same here
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isn't the math/physics sense still like busted/trivial/pathological?
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Well it specifically refers to a system with zero-information dimensions. Like 3 collinear points is a degenerate triangle. Your adjectives are possible valuation terms for such states but not central to the math itself.
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I selected math/physics but I actually mostly hear it as a colloquial adjective, so not really any of the above.
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Mostly I use “degenerate” as a suggestion to replace “devolve”. Yes, the meaning of “devolve” has — er — evolved, and I’m not a prescriptivist, but evolution is neither teleological nor reversable.
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Biology. Being interchangeable in some contexts, or some parts adapting to take on functions of missing parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneracy_(biology) …
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noun: antiquated insult, vitriolic preacher energy. adjective: simplified behavior under certain assumption. 1960s IBM nerd energy.
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Degener-ait (verb) degener-it (noun)
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Yeah the pronunciation is different for verb/noun uses. I wonder why.
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