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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      5 months ago

      I hate that I saw that same post earlier today

      Hereā€™s a quote from the book:

      AI already transcends human perception ā€” in a sense, through chronological compression or ā€œtime travelā€: enabled by algorithms and computing power, it analyzes and learns through processes that would take human minds decades or even centuries to complete.

      Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel

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        5 months ago

        Isnā€™t it absolutely deranged? These people have (well had lol) real power over us.

        There is a great March 2023 episode of Trashfuture Iā€™m listening to atm called ā€œThe Diet of Brainwormsā€ about this book. They basically want to install feudalism and tech-priests because AI is sO pOwErFuLl.

        One of the hosts (Riley iirc) made a great point that itā€™s as if someone showed Kissenger that trick where you write ā€œboobsā€ using a calculator, and he became deeply unsettled by the computerā€™s power of speech. Also appreciated the one about Kissenger being the guy who used an etch-a-sketch to draw a gun and was scared of it.