This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an …
      • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Well I’ve definitely misinterpreted.

        This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from ‘David Gerard@awful.systems’ and then I see your comment as

        @dgerard gtfo. Lol

        Which to me I interpreted as ‘lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here’. Especially with the reply from second user, “thanks, blocked”.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don’t do that.

        • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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          3 days ago

          adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance

          anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges

          • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
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            3 days ago

            at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it’s a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 days ago

      oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag

      however,

      Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard?

      let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because:

      • you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank
      • you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth
      • you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
      • you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
      • you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia

      there are more, we can go deeper

      • samvines@awful.systemsEnglish
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        3 days ago

        You’re an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug “a bad thing”