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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, and happy 4th July in advance.)
I hadnāt thought of Ribbon Farm in like 5 years, but when I googled it today I found this:
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/ribbonfarm-resurrected
?O kay?
wget -rwasnāt good enough for a static copy?wat
why canāt you just make a tulpa like a normal person.
well whatever, Iāll ask about the harari.
what even the fuck is this word salad saying. at least upgrade to the one that isnāt em dash trigger happy.
now Iām afraid to google farnam street.
Iāve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. theyāre full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still itās barely at āperformance engineeringā levels of problem
so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing
for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32ā¦48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4ā¦8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y
Iāve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing āhigh end hostingā? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit
Paying to run it on someone elseās computer. WPEngine charge $130/month for the level of their Essential plan thatās supposed to handle 100,000 visits/month. Thatās $1560/year, which is near enough to his claim that itās probably what he was on.
the first part wasnāt really a surprise (I am the someone elseās computer in a number of areas), but those numbersā¦ 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress
I could just bundle everything Iāve ever written into a ZIP file, and then it would be losslessly compressed. Just saying.
I donāt necessarily hate this, because you can easily read it as highlighting the AI systemsā lack of agency. Rather than posing it as a threat for what itās going to do, it poses a threat for what it doesnāt do that believers expect it to: actually exercise judgement and thought.
Ed: hadnāt realized that the guy we were taking seriously was the author of Sapiens. Gonna have to assume I was extending entirely too much charity in my assessment.
Why would anyone be scared of an empty suit lol
I doubt that this is how it was originally intended but think about all the boosters pointing at an empty suit while saying shit like āyouāre being laid off and this is your replacement,ā or āI know youāve been lonely so I set you up on a blind date with this guy,ā or even āthis is whatās going to solve climate change.ā And then imagine looking around and seeing friends, family, the broader media, and government and business leaders listening to them while smiling and nodding.