swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My initial reaction was essentially a mix of “sorry to this man” and “well I don’t really expect psychology today to publish anything approaching meaningful on tech/ai” so I wanted to see if those reactions were justified. Well…

This makes PT look like a total rag. The author, John Nosta, bills himself as “The World’s Leading Innovation Theorist and Keynote Speaker” which really just sounds like “lecture circuit grifter” to me. Let’s take a look at the rest of his front page:

STRATEGIST

Driving change that is changing the world. John’s informed voice has become a beacon of insight to help dissect and define innovation in health, medicine, and technology.

INNOVATOR

Not just a simple observer, John is directly engaged with top companies, thinkers and initiatives. His perspective is from the inside out and provides an “insiders” view of a complex and changing world.

THOUGHT LEADER

John is consistently ranked among the top names in health technology and innovation. Beyond simply an influencer, he is also defined as “most admired” to “top disruptor” in technology, life sciences and medicine.

So yeah if you asked chatGPT to come up with the profile for an AI lecture circuit grifter, it’d probably look like the above.

Looking through his contributions to PT you might think he is just recycling armchair AI philosophy to make a quick buck and honestly I’m having a hard time thinking otherwise.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

The least interesting member of the gruber family, they wrote him out of die hard 4.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FWIW as far as I can tell, bears are not native to Honduras

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

How many victory points is that

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

I 100% really did not intend for the name to work so well with that context but am once again thankful for all the gifts it brings.

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

jurisdictional polymath

To borrow a term from the podcast "Scam Goddess", a "serial entrepreneur", which in turn is just a scam artist.

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

Apple fanboys: "Apple has a singular, perfect vision for how people should interact with technology. I would get all my sensory organs replaced by Apple peripherals if I could. They should be allowed to trample us."

NB: apple has trampled over me but not my spirit

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Truly a gift that shall keep on giving

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

This is fundamentally a part of any kind of race science or racism.

And fascism! Or any discriminatory -ism, up to and including capitalism.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

In this article I’ll be making a distinction between what I call Hard WN and Soft WN.

In this article I will mostly be describing why I left Soft WN.

oh dawg

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Post reads like he tried the penis implants mentioned in the stubsack and now has regrets

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10^27 future lives

Ok here’s my Rat fermi-time traveller party paradox, in short, the Rat FTTP paradox.

  1. According to Rat doctrine, many worlds is true and science is amazing and will solve all problems eventually.
  2. Lack of time travel is a problem, meaning in some world, eventually there will be time travel, by 1.
  3. Lack of 10^27 people is a problem*, so we will also have that, also by 1.

The paradox: If time travel is so easy and there will be so many future lives, where are all the future rats?

No seriously, where are they? This FTTP orgy was supposed to start 24 hours ago.

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