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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Here’s an interesting nugget I discovered today
A long LW post tries to tie AI safety and regulations together. I didn’t bother reading it all, but this passage caught my eye
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ARhanRcYurAQMmHbg/the-historical-parallels-preliminary-reflection
You will be shocked to learn that this summary is a bit lacking in detail. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
(my emphasis)
The vessel experiences multiple listing incidents between 1903 and 1914.
Adding lifeboats:
So. Owners who knew they had an issue with stability elected profits over safety. But yeah it’s the fault of regulators.
Thanks for debunking that. The AI bro writing the OP probably googled “examples of well intentioned regulation gone wrong” and copied the first thing they popped up. As in, I googled that and the first link I got was a quora post with both the example in question and a long discussion thread (152 comments!) poking holes in the example. And if they didn’t get it through google, they probably got it through GPT.
E: forgot to link to the quora post. Link
Good on Quora members for debunking too.