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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Follow up for this post from the other day.
Our DSO now greenlit the stupid Copilot integration because āMicrosoft said itās okayā (of course they did), and he also was on some stupid AI convention yesterday and whatever fucking happened there, heās become a complete AI bro and is now preaching the Gospel of Altman that everyone whoās not using AI will be obsolete in few years and we need to ADAPT OR DIE. Itās the exact same shit CEO is spewing.
He wants an AI that handles data security breaches by itself. He also now writes emails with ChatGPT even though just a week ago he was hating on people who did that. I sat with my fucking mouth open in that meeting and people asked me whether Iām okay (Iām not).
I need to get another job ASAP or I will go clinically insane.
He is the data security breach.
E: Dropped a T. But hey, at least chatgpt uses SSL to communicate, so the databreach is now constrained to the ChatGPT trainingdata. So it isnāt that bad.
Iām so sorry. the tech industry is shockingly good at finding people who are susceptible to conversion like your CEO and DSO and subjecting them to intense propaganda that unfortunately tends to work. for someone lower in the company like your DSO, thatās a conference where theyāll be subjected to induction techniques cribbed from cults and MLM schemes. I donāt know what they do to the executives ā I imagine it involves a variety of expensive favors, high levels of intoxication, and a variant of the same techniques yud used ā but it works instantly and produces someone who canāt be convinced theyāve been fed a lie until it ends up indisputably losing them a ton of money
Yeah, I assume thatās exactly what happened when CEO went to Silicon Valley to talk to āimportant peopleā. Despite being on a course to save money before, he dumped tens of thousands into AI infrastructure which hasnāt delivered anything so far and is suddenly very happy with sending people to AI workshops and conferences.
But Iām only half-surprised. Heās somewhat known for making weird decisions after talking to people who want to sell him something. This time itās gonna be totally different, of course.
The āimportant peopleā line is a huge part of how the grift works and makes tech media partially responsible. Legitimizing the grift rather than criticizing it makes it easy for sales folks to push āthe next big thing.ā And after all, donāt you want to be an important person?
I have realized working at a corporation that a lot of employees will just mindlessly regurgitate the company message. And not in a āI guess this is what we have to work onā way, but as if it replaced whatever worldview they had previously.
Not quite sure what to make of this TBH.
Ugh, Iām sorry man. Thatās awful.