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 …
  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    8 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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      8 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”