Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Iām going to put a token down and make a prediction: when the bubble pops, the prompt fondlers will go all in on a āstabbed in the backā myth and will repeatedly try to re-inflate the bubble, because we were that close to building robot god and they canāt fathom a world where they were wrong.
The only question is who will get the blame.
In past tech bubbles, it was basically the VCs, the media hypesters and the liars in the companies. So the right people.
I increasingly feel that bubbles donāt pop anymore, the slowly fizzle out as we just move on to the next one, all the way until the macro economy is 100% bubbles.
Isnāt it obvious? Us sneerers and the big name skeptics (like Gary Marcuses and Yann LeCuns) continuously cast doubt on LLM capabilities, even as they are getting within just a few more training runs and one more scaling of AGI Godhood. Weāll clearly be the ones to blame for the VC funding drying up, not years of hype without delivery.
it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. Youāre welcome.
Given their assumptions, the doomers should be thanking us for delaying AGI doom!
nah theyāll just stop and do nothing. they wonāt be able to do anything without chatgpt telling them what to do and think
i think that deflation of this bubble will be much slower and a bit anticlimatic. maybe theyāll figure a way to squeeze suckers out of their money in order to keep the charade going
I believe that without access to generative AI, spammers and scammers wouldnāt be able to successfully compete in their respective markets anymore. So at the very least, the AI companies got this going for them, I guess. This might require their sales reps to mingle in somewhat peculiar circles, but who cares?
i meant more like scamming true believers out of their money like happens with crypto, this is cfar deal currently. spam, as something nobody should or wants to spend their creative juices on, or for that matter interact in any way, seems a natural fit for automation with llms
what does chatbot say about that?
Whoever they say they blame itās probably going to be ultimately indistinguishable from āthe Jewsā
Theyāre doing it with cryptocurrency right now.