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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
curious about this reference - wdym?
āwe use LLMs for X in our security productsā gets brought up a lot in the risky business podcast promotional parts basically, and it sometimes leaks into the other parts as well. That is basically the times I hear people speak somewhat positively about it. Where they use LLMs (or claim to use) for various things, some I thought were possible but iffy, some impossible, like having LLMs do massive amounts of organizational work. Sorry I canāt recall the specifics. (Iām also behind atm).
Never heard people speak positively about it from the people I know, but they also know Iām not that positive about AI, so the likelyhood they just avoid the subject is non-zero.
E: Schneier is also not totally against the use of llms for example. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/privacy-for-agentic-ai.html quite disappointed. (Also as with all security related blogs nowadays, dont read the comments, people have lost their minds, it always was iffy, but the last few years every security related blog that reaches some fame is filled with madmen).
Ah, I donāt listen to riskybiz because ugh podcast
Schneierās a dipshit well past his prime, though. people should stop listening to that ossified doorstop
Ow yeah, I donāt disagree on that, even if I do keep up with them. Just making my sources obvious. (One of the ticks I do find valuable from the Rationalists, the verbosity and tendency to try and over explain isnāt as valuable, but hard to shift (and the one feeds in the other (andā¦ im doing it again aināt I?))).
thatās fair - the first half of my post was certainly more about me than anything (but was also an indication as to why I donāt hear that particular angle much - Iāve also ensured I get as little as possible advertising in my life)
other part: nah still, fuck schneier
rest of your comment reminds me of the tact filters post (albeit in a different angle)
Tact filter is prob what went wrong with the Lawyer person discussed elsewhere, I never had heard about it (or had forgotten).