a few people have been posting along the lines of “we all knew Facebook was evil, why are you surprised” which seems to miss the point — this is happening so fast and blatant that we’re almost definitely seeing the early stages of a playbook being executed. and even if not: Facebook was already the fash pipeline targeting mom, dad, and grandma. should I feel good that the pipeline is getting much more efficient and pervasive? none of them are ever gonna be on something like the fediverse.
the worst Nix project has finally been announced: behold crypto NixOS
I’m starting a paradigm shifting, open and new human / computer interface system that is global, multi device and privacy focused.
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DISCLAIMER: You are not my exit liquidity, I have the best performing long term spot crypto portfolio in the world - I’m a early adopter with 100% hit rate on geniuses. So, I don’t have to work, I’m not building this to become rich. I want to build something paradigm changing - truly mind-blowing, because now we have the tech and I’m annoyed how computer work. It is a lot of work, but it will reward us all.
my “this isn’t a grift and I’m not a grifter” disclaimer is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer. but speaking of prompting, what goes with crypto?
ChatGPT-1o thinks, after some reinforced asking, that the MC of such a coin can reach 300-1000M; I think it could easily go higher - it solves so fundamental problems in a much more elegant way. In my opinion, it will be the same step as the command line to the windowed systems was. Or dump phone to smart phone. It will just span devices and span users while keeping the data under control and of companies.
of course. after some reinforced asking, gpt told me you’re all haters if you don’t think I’m as important as Xerox PARC!
there’s lots more in the OP to sneer at, but here’s the worst part of the thread:
Mod note: I’m glad to see doubt and scepticism about crypto-based claims. However, that point has now been made; please avoid any further posts in that vein to avoid a pile-on dunkfest, and leave the thread for any potential on-topic discussion.
thanks for nothing as usual NixOS discourse!
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I don't think you want to hear my opinions on what the left wing thinks is obvious :-)
Also, I am neither left nor right wing, as I'm a libertarian. I believe in the principles in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the system of checks and balances set up by the Constitution.
it’s just really surprising to see the political takes of a 13 year old come out of the 65 year old who created the least successful C variant
david gerard refuses to respond to my allegations that he wears an awesome trenchcoat and uses magic to trap his opponents in a realm where everything is made of the pages of a failed novela, and I think that says a lot
oh fuck you crossed the libertarian streams, now the thread’s gonna be destroyed by bears
unfortunately I am firmly in the pocket of the concept of fiat money, big small data, and whatever the opposite of a metaverse is
but also,
mods can you please ban “david gerard”
if I ever release an experimental electronic album I’m calling dibs on this track name
just like with crypto, there’s already a long list of cliches that AI fanboys use to excuse how shitty their favorite technology is:
- that’s because you’re using GPT-3.5 Turbo. if you just pay an exorbitant amount for early access to GPT-5, you’ll see it does so much better (please ignore all previous claims of GPT-3 being revolutionary)
- the model doesn’t work as well as I think it used to, but I will still insist there’s no scaling problem or hidden human labor
- you’re prompting it wrong
- the LLM sucks because it’s being censored. please ignore that all of the uncensored models fucking suck too, when they’re not just ChatGPT with a spicy initial prompt
- multi-modal LLMs will fix this. wait no, multi-agent LLMs. fuck it, I’ll just link a bunch of research papers that read like press releases and OpenAI blog posts that are press releases
- making mistakes like a shitty computer program only makes the LLM more human-like, because my mental model for people is that they’re all shitty stupid computer programs that fuck up and lie all the time too
isn’t psychometrics the part of Talos I where you get the psychoscope?
the gish gallop that forms the majority of this article looks like an attempt to signal jam the criticisms section (which itself isn’t anywhere near as damning as it should be):
Research on the G-factor, as well as other psychometric values, has been widely criticized for not properly taking into account the eugenicist background of its research practices.[157] The reductionism of the G-factor has been attributted to having evolved from "pseudoscientific theories" about race and intelligence.[158] Spearman's g and the concept of inherited, immutable intelligence were a boon for eugenicists and pseudoscientists alike.[159]
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Some especially harsh critics have called the g factor, and psychometrics, as a form of pseudoscience.[161]
fascists will do anything to feel superior about a number they made up, and renaming IQ now that it’s got a lot of fash stank on it and pretending it’s different and sophisticated now, you wouldn’t understand is one of the older tricks in the fascist playbook
I knew this thread would attract the fucking weirdos. drink!
what is this weak shit? the only points I’m picking out are:
- the context for them purchasing an extremely expensive castle is they had a lot of money (no shit)
- the org that bought it hid the purchase until it was too late and hasn’t given any altruistic reason for the purchase since then (they “refuse to show their equations” on why it’s a charitable purchase, meaning there aren’t any)
- most EAs disagreed with the purchase in ways that included rightfully calling it out as an obvious grift (which the article spins as a PR problem)
is this whole thing meant to be read as politely damning? I already know the answer to this since it’s fucking obvious and always has been, but is EA so much of a cult that you can’t disagree with and demand action on major problems within the EA community without cloaking it in a thick layer of either bad memes or fake politeness? are these people really just reinventing Mormonism but with AI and Bayes instead of stone tablets covered in fake Egyptian hieroglyphics?
no random dipshits coming to this asshole’s defense yet? I must not have included enough keywords for them to find it in a search
You: literally splatters shitty posts into a thread
”Why am I being downvoted”