• slopjockey@awful.systems
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    7 months ago

    That Floyd tweet was fantastically dim-witted, so much more so than I expected from the headline. This unaltered video of a man’s death is a deepfake not because it was doctored, nor because it’s misleading, but because it gave progressive beliefs I don’t like. And all that was sandwiched between an AI plug. His point was that AI would somehow shit all over the libs and he doesn’t explain how, not even a little bit.

    How do these weird ass neolib AI freakazoids keep getting cited in mainstream sites?

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      7 months ago

      Also he used to be u/imaxblue. 3 years ago today this man was making 2 sentence horror stories, posting pictures of his dratini plush, and speaking in uwu xd talk. All while decrying wokism on his substack.

      The craziest part is that this is just every tenth guy on the web right now. Man I used to be terminally online, but every time I see the newest micro celebrity I feel like I’m in freak central.

      Proof (he links his substack): https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/kl4oz0/well_yes_i_am_an_expert_in_epidemiology/gh6vfiz/?context=3

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      7 months ago

      holy fuck it’s so much stupider than I was expecting too, and I was expecting some real stupid shit from one of the big e/a guys given their usual output

      and of course my three least favorite guys know Brian well:

      Chau also frequently platforms controversial figures on his podcast, including Curtis Yarvin, who has said neo-Nazis’ hearts are “in the right place”, and Richard Hanania, who recently referred to black people as “animals”. Chau called Hanania a “brilliant analyst and policy thinker” and Yarvin’s episode “among the best”.

      Chau’s Alliance for the Future is closely linked to the “effective accelerationism”, or e/acc, movement, a group which opposes attempts at regulating AI. The organisation counts e/acc founder Guillaume Verdon as a board member; Verdon, who regularly tweets about being a conduit for a “thermodynamic god”, has said that he is indifferent to the idea of human extinction.