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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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it'd be nice if these dipshits, like, came off a factory line somewhere. then you could bin them right at the QC failure

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My takeaway reading that was basically "Sure there are emboldened Neo-nazis marching in the streets who literally want to genocide people like you in particular. But they don't want to kill me so I'm more concerned about real problems: an out of control paperclip factory."

Also jeez how much cool-aid do you have to drink to start tweeting "the end of all value" instead of "earth go explodey and everyone dead :(". If I didn't know about the AI weirdos I would have assumed it was some sort of capitalistic nightmare.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

End of all value is different from earth go explody. They're fine with earth go explody as long as there's a second, slightly larger earth to replace it with more value.

Desperation of delusion. "End of all value" => "I don't understand things, so I better at least have control!" I wonder if these kinds of people would send literal Nazis to my doorstep if I suggested that I don't have any stake either way in the "coin flipping on the end of my world view."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

For posterity:

The Nazis were very evil, but I'd rather the actual literal Nazis take over the world forever than flip a coin on the end of all value.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Yeah sure the future is a boot stamping on a human face forever, but at least it has value now".

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Think of all the boots you could sell. And the leather coat upsell opportunities! The market provides!

(/s, ofc)