[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

Being paid to reddit has to be the most pathetic thing you can do, and I say that as someone who once reddited unpaid.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

This almost reads like tptacek doesn't understand why lucidity's piece a year ago was so effective and tried to write it from the opposite angle by punching down instead of punching up.

I'd have thought that a guy who writes on the internet like it's a competition sport could recognize the obvious problems of this, but maybe I'm just a vibe coding Youtuber.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't get it, how is every one of the most touted people in the AI space among the least credible people in the industry.

Like literally every time its a person whose name I recognize from something else they've done, that something else is something I hate.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me something F.D. Signifier said on a music podcast.

Progressives are losing the cultural war in a lot of ways, but they'll always need us because we're the ones pushing the boundaries on art, and it turns out, no matter how ghoulish people want to act, everyone has genuine love of fucking awesome art. The true loss condition is being captured by the tools of the master.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

The machine I love can't be dumb, I love the machine and I can't love what is dumb.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

Posting cringe, even intentionally, has little artistry.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago

It's the imbalance of power. No one wants to be the gatekeeper at the local game store telling the 12 year old kid "Sorry, you can't play your Spongebob deck here tonight", whereas as the ones printing the cards, they can be gatekeepers of "Sorry, you can't play your deck without the One Ring here tonight" off of the basis of "normal" power creep.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

So I should be clear, I dont think theres anything special about Tech companies that should let them be treated differently. But for whatever reason, it is a fact that places like We or Tesla or Theranos or fucking Groupon gets stupid valuations just because they're "tech" adjacent.

If the market ever catches on that theres no secret ingredient (and as Zitron's shown, there are pretty visible public numbers pointing at this), we're looking at a correction at the trillion dollar scale. Or maybe we never ask Google to put up or shut up, and just keep the fairy powder in our eyes forever.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago

I don't accept a wrong caption is better than not being captioned. I'm concerned that when you say "High tolerance for error", that really means you think it's something unimportant.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago

For the level of continued investment AI has gotten, it isnt possible to be too harsh on these clowns.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is this list just a summary of a bunch of downvoted SCPs?

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago

Ah shit, ML spelled backwards and wrong is LLM, they got me good.

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