Want to wade into the snowy 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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentineās Day!)
AI bros do new experiments in making themselves even stupider. Going from āexplain what you did but dumb it down for me and my degraded attention spanā into ājust make a simplified cartoon out of itā.
Proud of not understanding what is going on. None of these people could hack the Gibson.
E: If they all hate programming so much, perhaps a change of job is in question, sure might not pay as much, but it might make them happier.
I donāt know about them, but I would be offended if I was planning something with a collaborator, and they decide to give me a dumbed down, entertaining, childrenās storybook version of their plan while keeping all the technical details to themselves.
Also, this is absolutely not what ācognitive debtā means. Iāve heard technical debt refers to bad design decisions in software where one does something cheap and easy now but has to constantly deal with the maintenance headaches afterwards. But the very concept of working through technical details? Thatās what we call āthinkingā. These people want to avoid the burden of thinking.
Eh, one might say that going by the broad strokes version while letting the expert do their thing is basically what management is all about, especially if they ignore the part where he wants his version to be light and entertaining.
This isnāt about managing subordinates though, this is about devising ways to be complacent about not double checking what the LLM generates in your name.
Person who lied on his resume about having a cs degree āI need to reduce my cognitive debtā
Wait, wait, wait. I didnāt realize this before. Who the F needs to lie about not having a CS degree? Being a code monkey is (or at least used to be) something, where you can get away with not having a degree.
I was trying to make a joke (and failing) about how people misuse terms. Sorry about it not landing. Should have thought about it better.
Oh I get it now. I thought thereās some backstory that either Nathan Baschez or Simon Willison lied about having a CS degree.
Nope sorry, just a bad attempt at a joke. Made sense in my head the first time, now less ;).
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 tag yourself Iām emailing HTML
Im teleporting in real time!
I think I understand it. Think of an alcoholic thatās trying every sort of miracle hangover ācureā instead of drinking less.
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 I like* how the structure of the boat changes from moment to moment. I like* how the radio dishes just beam from some random place between the transmitter and the dish. I like* that the original person who was waiting for a live stream doesnāt get it (because it goes to a different group of people) and is just eating popcorn watching the mess unfold. I like* how the āaudienceā have their backs to the ālive streamā screen and are excited to be looking away from it.
Surely at least a few of them have worked up enough seed capital to try their hand at used-car dealerships. I can attest that the juicier markets just outside the Bay Area are fairly saturated, but maybe they could push into lesser-served locales like Lost Hills or Weaverville.