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The post Xitter web has spawned soo 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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
True believers at Voxā Future Perfect āverticalā let out a hearfelt REEEEEE as Saltman makes the obvious move to secure all the profits
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/374275/openai-just-sold-you-out
The Zitron-pilled among us probably suspect that part of the real reason for this is, ironically, to obscure the fact that OpenAI has no real profits because of how ludicrously expensive their models are to train and operate and how limited the actual use cases that people will pay for have proven. Itās better from a āgetting investor moneyā perspective to have everyone talking about how terrible it is that investor profits are no longer capped for humanitarian reasons than to have more people ask whether weāre getting close to the peak of this bubble.
this is so fucking funny. bro nobody but you is surprised
Turns out those so called āwallet inspectorsā just want your money!
Governor Newsom, are you seeing this?
Congress, are you seeing this?
World, are you seeing this??
How could this happen to me???
capitalist: does capitalism
liberal: Ah fuck, I canāt believe youāve done this.
You think capitalists would do that? Go in front of the government and tell lies?
E: this is also my feeling about Altman saying āI did drugs and I changed broā.
I changed*
*I decided to get a blood boy!!!
LSD powered mega-erections, all thanks to LSD (and the blood of my sons).
shocked that scorpions in a scorpionās nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging
Iām calling the Louvre
Iām feeling a weird mix of emotions about this. Itās not the cash grab by olā salty dog; capitalism is doing its thing. Iām both elated that these idiot liberals feel betrayed by this turn of events and enraged that these liberal idiots exist to launder the reputation of techbros in the first place.
oh hey its that reoccurring thought I have about the āAI Safetyā criti-hype popping back into my head
Expanding on that, part of me feels Altman is gonna find all the rhetoric he made about āAI doomā being used against him in the future - manās given the true believers reason to believe heād commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck.
Hell, the true believers who made this pretty explicitly pointed out Altmanās made arguing for regulation a lot easier:
a most shockedpikachu article, I love it
it continues to be astounding how gullible some people can be (/choose to stay?)