Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.)
Pete Steinberger shares his OpenAI bill on Twitter. The headline number is $1.3 million in the last 30 days.
But in his (own) defense, it takes so many tokens to do so many bad ideas at once.
How many people, if they were given $1.3 million just once in their lifetime, would figure out far better uses for that money than this guy?
you give me 1.3 million dollars and Iāll fuck off on a motorcycle for the rest of my natural life and that would still be a better value for the money than whatever the fuck this is.
Coincidentally, it came up in conversation last night that the head of AI at Northeastern University makes $1.3 million a year (I donāt know where that number came from, but itās what I heard, and itās apparently the second-highest salary at the university, exceeded only by the presidentās).