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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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According to wikipedia he's a eugenics enjoyer. Another W for nominative determinism I guess.
Explains his gushing over Scott in the intro.
I still think he makes a lot of good points in that promptfondlers are losing their shit because people aren't buyin the swill they're selling.
In a similar vein, check out this comment on LW.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=25HfwcGxC3Gxy9sHi
So belieiving in the inevitable coming of the robot god is dogma on LW now. This is a cult.
Also note the standard error that people make (Which Rationalists talk about but people also never seem to internalize) Scott is wise and knowledgeable, until we get to a thing DeBoer knows about, and then it suddenly is strange and out of place. But the wise and knowledgeable thing doesn't get revalued, which considering the complaint about Scott is a bit of a lack of selfawareness moment. Almost like something that looks like it is written in wise and knowledgeable and pleasing way doesn't have to be that. Anyway, sorry for the sidetrack we were talking about genAI and this is not relevant to that.
Gell-Mann amnesia.
Hey come now, it is a common Dutch last name. Don't slander Dutch people who are called boer (farmer) like that. Do it for the right reasons. We all suck, no matter our last names.
Wasn't the original designation of Boers (as in the Boer war) a denigrating term?
No idea. Prob best to check wikipedia for that. Could be last names, could be occupation, could be some denigrating term.
Looks like it's an endonym, or was at the time. OFC the reason for the Great Trek was that the boers were pissed they couldn't have slaves anymore while under British rule. Charming people all around.
Oof, thanks for the heads up!
Guh wtf
I feel ya, I got got by that Sam Kriss piece dunking on hpmor last week.
Never trust a guy with a substack
I'm waiting for the day substack puts RSS access behind a paywall. Unfortunately some decent blogs are still on that platform
I was thinking about that in reaction to something else. Anytime somebody casually brings up chrischan (she has been a decades long stalking/harassement target) should have been a bit of a red flag.
(E: not blaming people for missing that btw, it just stood out to me).
Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.