Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden 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.)
My experience is that almost all these cases are effectively āChatGPT are fixing my attention problemsā (not necessarily full ADHD, just people feeling itās easier with an impulsion no matter how random) For me, itās worth paying attention too, but more in the sense āwhat does it reveal in people ?ā
Edit : also, one of his example :
2005 spell checkers find all of these reasonably well.
(and, in fact, the only two reasonable examples he give is the innocence project - but itās an attention span thing - and the full text indexing one which is the exact use case LLMs were developped for and is inherently non generative)