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[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So I enjoy the Garbage Day newsletter, but this episode of Panic World with Casey Newton is just painful, in the way that Casey is just spitting out unproven assertions.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

I haven’t even tried to find a transcript yet and it sounds Very Casey

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 28 minutes ago

I actually follow Casey on some stuff: he’s a phenomenal source on some of the stupidest shit I’ve gotten to post about here

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got to a point in this where Casey Newton enumerated his "only two sides" of AI and well, fuck Casey Newton.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was he the one who wrote that awful "real and dangerous vs fake and sucks" piece? The one that pretended that critihype was actually less common than actual questions about utility and value?

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, and a lot of the answers he gave seemed to originate from that point.

One particularly grating thing was saying that the left needs to embrace AI to fight facism because "facism embraced AI and they are doing well!" which is just so grating a conclusion to jump to.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

fascism also embraced fascism and is doing well, so by that logic the left needs to embrace fascism