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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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The post Xitter web has spawned soo 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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I'm imagining no fewer than three fictional versions of Eris/Discord laughing at this orange-site fool:

Meanwhile I cannot turn my living room LED lights on or off because I control them through discord.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wired tried to put out a defence of tech and the result is incoherent drivel. See for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So why must binary digits define, for all time, the limits of computation, and our experience of it?

There's enough layers of irony here that it's a bit hard to tell if he's making a serious argument here or not; but this is one of the weirder straw-men arguments I've ever read.

"No no no, it's not all the exploitation, social ills, lack of user control, shoddy quality, and general capitalism I hate in the modern "tech" industry; it's the fact that it uses binary!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If you gotta conclude with, "tee hee! simulation theory!" you're not just cooked... you're seared and roasted

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Ok, so, some typical clueless VC mixed up atlas and sisyphus, which absolutely tracks. A VC thinks they are performing the all-important task of holding up the universe, when really they are just pushing a boulder up a hill and letting it fall down again.

VCs really think they are prometheus bringing fire to man, when really they are the eagle eating prometheus’s ever regrowing liver, where prometheus is the working class and the liver is collective wellbeing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

New superpredictor lore dropped on r/mapporn. If you believe in prediction markets and meet someone from Blaine MT or Essec NY, you have to do whatever they say because they are smarter and better at predicting than you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I mean, up until this year they would both have been beat by Clallum County, WA, which had matched the National winner since Gerald Ford. So way to identify the best of the losers I guess?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Breaking news: "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably"!

Or, you know, not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

looks like the autoplag bullshit is causing a "fun" new frontier in the hellscape of youtube copyright fuckery

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Shorter HN: wasting gigawatts of power to increase VC valuations - fine. Discarding 80k pounds of butter because of missing allergen information is the worst thing to happen since the burning of the library of Alexandria

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150991

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I was watching an old Day9 stream today and this story is bouncing off of some comments he made about the importance of degenerate players to competitive design. Like, this is a pretty dumb outcome of regulation, but at the same time if you try to define regulations to create an exception for what "everybody knows" is in something suddenly that process gets taken advantage of by self-interested manufacturers who will figure out how to convincingly argue that "everybody knows" their generic shampoo contains peanuts and shellfish or whatever. And in the context of this kind of regulation that degenerate play will get people killed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Gasp

This is just like the fall of Rome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Crossposting this thread from [email protected] with the fortune article "Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’". The article itself is nothing much, but it does have this quote:

The smackdown from his own AI system, ironically, came soon after Musk touted the system to his followers in a tweet reading “Use Grok for answers that are based on up-to-date info!”

A little delicious irony is fine as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Some techbro proposes "HumaneRank" as a distribution system in the post-AI era and while HN finds it disturbingly like a global popularity system at least "it's better than Communism":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42140664

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

same type of people who call everything a communist social credit score btw

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Competitive college admissions and tech-industry hiring practices really have done permanent damage to these people, haven't they

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whuffie, but worse

also, I thought these guys loved The Culture...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

TL;DR:

AI will take over the economy for reasons so humans will have no economic value for reasons which is terrifying for reasons and also we can't just have males sitting around because y'know so we need to make a pretend economy because communism. So anyway y'know PageRank? Well don't be shocked but humans have relationships too. So yeah basically let's distribute ownership of all the world's resources once a month proportionally to how many likes they receive (no I am not a vtuber why do you ask?).

What the heck did I just read?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

youtube poop, apparently

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