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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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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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welcome! this is a good first post.
and I can see why you needed to sneer. the entire fucking article quirkwashes e/a and BasedBeffJezos by sharing some of the absolute stupidest opinions and memes ever formed (an e/a staple) and a small fraction of the bigotry in their community, and handwaves it all away by claiming BasedBeffJezos must be a genius cause he was a nepo hire at two google subsidiaries and was a “Quantum AI computing scientist”, whatever the fuck that means
wow, it’s almost like your ass forgot to interview anyone outside of an AI cult for this article
when I asked BasedBeffJezos what I should expect from an e/a future, he replied “welcome to the fantasy zone. get ready !”. it was only then that I realized he had cleverly tricked me into interviewing a standup cabinet of the 1985 Sega arcade hit Space Harrier
I’ve been playing the 32x version!
same! though I was giving the Saturn version a try while writing that post
thanks! I've been enjoying the weekly threads, feels like they provide an easier way to get involved.
I thought at the end of the article they'd provide a modicum of push back by sharing the perspective of someone outside the cult, but nope, they round it out with a "self-professed doomer" EA, who they introduce as (and only as):
Objection, relevance?
nvm found the relevance, Linkedin tells me he was involved in hosting Lesswrong for 9 years lol
fuck now I gotta burn my bellroy shit.
Bellroy stuff is kind of in my wheelhouse for minimalist manly man stuff; luckily I haven't bought any.