Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!)
AI bros do new experiments in making themselves even stupider. Going from 'explain what you did but dumb it down for me and my degraded attention span' into 'just make a simplified cartoon out of it'.
Proud of not understanding what is going on. None of these people could hack the Gibson.
E: If they all hate programming so much, perhaps a change of job is in question, sure might not pay as much, but it might make them happier.
Surely at least a few of them have worked up enough seed capital to try their hand at used-car dealerships. I can attest that the juicier markets just outside the Bay Area are fairly saturated, but maybe they could push into lesser-served locales like Lost Hills or Weaverville.
I don't know about them, but I would be offended if I was planning something with a collaborator, and they decide to give me a dumbed down, entertaining, children's storybook version of their plan while keeping all the technical details to themselves.
Also, this is absolutely not what "cognitive debt" means. I've heard technical debt refers to bad design decisions in software where one does something cheap and easy now but has to constantly deal with the maintenance headaches afterwards. But the very concept of working through technical details? That's what we call "thinking". These people want to avoid the burden of thinking.
Eh, one might say that going by the broad strokes version while letting the expert do their thing is basically what management is all about, especially if they ignore the part where he wants his version to be light and entertaining.
This isn't about managing subordinates though, this is about devising ways to be complacent about not double checking what the LLM generates in your name.
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 I like* how the structure of the boat changes from moment to moment. I like* how the radio dishes just beam from some random place between the transmitter and the dish. I like* that the original person who was waiting for a live stream doesn't get it (because it goes to a different group of people) and is just eating popcorn watching the mess unfold. I like* how the "audience" have their backs to the "live stream" screen and are excited to be looking away from it.
I think I understand it. Think of an alcoholic that's trying every sort of miracle hangover "cure" instead of drinking less.
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 tag yourself I'm emailing HTML
Im teleporting in real time!