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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2026
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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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Holy hell the dumb takes get dumber.
Edit: added the sources I grumpily handwaved about earlier
So immediately after plagiarising a human mathematician's work, OpenAi dumped 722 unverified preprints on the maths community and assumed that they would be grateful... they're not. Just because you brute forced something in lean doesn't mean it actually has any meaning at all. Even the one-shotted Terry Tao had some wise words on this . Many of the preprints have already been proven wrong. OpenAI just extruded a huge pile of bullshit and told people "go dig".
So the case for ennui is this: A computer program produces plausible sounding answers to your questions so you Eliza yourself. Then, when the computer starts producing volleys of diarrhea, instead of thinking "hmm maybe I was too quick to Eliza myself like that" it's straight to "I'm sad and depressed because this very smart computer would never produce garbage. It must simply be smarter than me"
That potato farm retirement is looking more and more tempting every day and I've got at least 2 decades until I'm pensionable age FML.
man, I'm aiming for a Christmas tree farm myself. 23 years to go.
I've been involved with a xmas tree farm for 35 years - family run. I recommend Do not. Big box stores like lowes and home the pot take almost all of the business.
Summers with upkeep are miserable. Winters, either cutting them down to supply the retail targets, or running as cut-your-own, is a miserable time. Tree sap is a miserable substance. Deer are a cruddy creature that don't plan on eating evergreen but munge up the trees by felt removal from antlers or they are marking their territory. there are many small pests. It takes a wack of land to run one, nobody wants to drive out to where the land is cheap to shop. Digging trees for landscaping is stupid hard or expensive or both.
Yeah, we can't escape what is coming, it can be stopped, but not escaped.