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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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Monologue, 10 second read: “yeah dawg so extrapolating from data seems intuitive, but data alone is not enough to make accurate or convincing predictions.”
Oh hey someone in the comments said it even better:
For even more brevity with no loss of substance: ”A turkey gets fed every day, right up until it's slaughtered before Thanksgiving.”
This feels shorter than these things usually are, or I've just become inured to this stuff.
Of course it turned out to be about not taking AI doom seriously, and not about, say, EA collectively falling for a scammer.
Good to see the Yud tradition of ridiculous strawmanning of science continue.
In this case, the strawscientist falls for a ponzi scheme because "it always outputted the same returns". So scientific!
did you guys know robert zubrin was an old time larouchite activist back in the 70s?
i didn't but this didn't surprise me in any way. Zubrin certainly has stuff going on
There were pre-musk cult allegations thats for sure.
This dude literally asks a chick how she would feel if she hadn't had breakfast today. Here's the biggest self-own I've ever seen presented without further comment
Spoiler warning, but these are the people you're getting into slapfights with on twitter
