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This man is a Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institute, previously Chief Economist of the Institute of International Finance and Chief Currency (FX) Strategist for fucking Goldman Sachs

He's literally one of the people in the fucking backrooms for the hight priests of Capitalism and his brain's being drained by the onslaught of speak-and-spell bots. Our so-called "elite" ruling class is rapidly off-loading their thinking and reasoning onto literal spam ad chatbots.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 69 points 1 week ago

People are absolutely not embarrassed enough about llm use

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

off-loading their thinking and reasoning onto literal spam ad chatbots.

And not just any chatbot, but specifically the one that is never right even accidentally. Dude's walking up to the machine that only lies and is always wrong and he's like "finally, someone who agrees with me!"

[–] ComRed2@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

I would die of embarrassment if I ever made a post like this.

[–] context@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

Our so-called "elite" ruling class is rapidly off-loading their thinking and reasoning onto literal spam ad chatbots.

cap-think deep down in the uncharted depths of my own psyche, i realize that all of my thinking and reasoning has already been offloaded to serve the interests of capital. this is so much easier it's almost liberating...

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went trying to verify the claim that Nauru had bought fishing vessels from China and I found this website that documents a vessel made in China in 2025 now owned by and flying a Nauru flag, but I couldn't find anything else. This is such a niche ass story that trying to search it up just brings up this twitter thread.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

is 35 million dollars the amount of money you use to buy a fleet of fishing ships (or a cargo carrier whoever's right) or is it an amount on the scale of the largest economy in the world diverting its output to evade tariffs?

Furthermore, yesterday you said other things now you're saying new things. You can't just change your story from diplomatic relationships changing trade balance to talking about what they buy! Sounds like lying to me!

If you want me to believe something you have to repeat it over and over again.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

Here's what google AI says: nerd

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

"CleverBot backs up my point so clearly you're wrong. Yes you should still consider me an expert after farming out what little "work" I do to a glorified predictive text program"

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 week ago

according to Facebook

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

On the one hand it's bad the high priests of capital are frying their brains because they'll treat us even worse. On the otherhand, it's very validating seeing these freaks believe in their own bullshit so much they fry their brains.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I keep seeing people posting 'heres what Ai said', and then a scrawl of gibberish, as if AI is the great objective arbiter. It's bizarre, for some reason I assumed we'd be collectively smarter than that, but I guess it's not too different from people gobbling up FOX News or whatever their chosen garbage channel is.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The vessel does seem to exist, but it is Liberian flagged?

I couldn't find any memorandum between Nauru and China though, certainly not signed in Dec. 2024

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Honestly it seems like one of those super niche buisness things you gotta be a part of to know where to look for accurate details in the sea of souls that is the internet. Though it does seem like a nifty little rabbit hole to dive down in learning about international trade in regards to the transferring of massive industrial grade capital goods.

There are (at least?) four fishing ships built in 2025 in China registered to Nauru

  • TUNA MANZAI
  • NAURU MANZAI
  • SKIPJACK MANZAI
  • YELLOWFIN MANZAI
[–] GrafZahl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

The job of "economists" is to spread misinformation. I don't think reasoning has ever been involved. They are not interested in scientific pursuit. "Economists" are playing team sports. AI makes it that much easier to spin up new talking points, while debunking them takes time and effort.

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