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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

First and foremost, the dunce is incapable of valuing knowledge that they don't personally understand or agree with. If they don't know something, then that thing clearly isn't worth knowing.

There is a corollary to this that I've seen as well, and it dovetails with the way so many of these guys get obsessed with IQ. Anything they can't immediately understand must be nonsense not worth knowing. Anything they can understand (or think they understand) that you don't is clearly an arcane secret of the universe that they can only grasp because of their innate superiority. I think that this is the combination that explains how so many of these dunces believe themselves to be the ubermensch who must exercise authoritarian power over the rest of us for the good of everyone.

See also the commenter(s) on this thread who insist that their lack of reading comprehension is evidence that they're clearly correct and are in no way part of the problem.

@YourNetworkIsHaunted I honestly was wondering why they were obsessing over IQ so much, but this comment actually made it all click

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 58 points 22 hours ago

in response to Bender pointing out that ChatGPT and its competitors simply encode relationships between words and have no concept of referent or meaning, which is a devastating critique of what the technology actually does, the absolute best response he can muster for his work is "yeah, but humans don't do anything more complicated than that". I mean, speak for yourself Sam: the rest of us have some concept of semiotics, and we can do things like identify anagrams or count the number of letters in a word, which requires a level of recursivity that's beyond what ChatGPT can muster.

Boom Shanka (emphasis added)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 42 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

'i am a stochastic parrot and so are u'

reminds me of

"In his desperation to have produced reality through computation, he denigrates actual reality by equating it to computation"

(from this review/analysis of the devs series). A pattern annoying common among the LLM AI fans.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

someone sent out the batpromptfondler signal and the mods are in shooting gallery mode

please refrain from commenting unaccordingly

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 15 hours ago

b-but David, they’ve been so reasonable and here we are getting emotional about the fucking garbage technology they’ve come here to shove down our throats alongside a heaping serving of capitalist brainrot from the same types of self-described geniuses who gave us OKRs

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

MRW 38 of the 39 comments have almost nothing to do with the article

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