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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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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.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

EA forum: Stock prices in a VC-forced bubble show that society will make trillions from AI!!!

first comment: "uh, wtf, that's not how anything works."

reply to this comment: "oh yeah? well DEBATE ME"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For such ostensibly smart people, the basics of finance and economics are surprisingly elusive!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

not that we should complain too much about this: it's given them the loss of the castle, the loss of a university-shielded ~~wastebasket~~ think tank, and may yet give them some more losses at scale!

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

at least crypto isn't involved this time. few understand (real world economics)