Some of that bazinga's most misanthropic and bootlicky takes have already been deleted by mods so I can't directly quote them, but what was deleted were some logical rational whoppers such as "all of you are under an idealistic delusion that human beings will always outcompete machines in work tasks if they believe strongly enough." berdly-smug

That ship sailed at least as far back as the myth of Paul Bunyan. Personally, the moment I added wheels to my travel bag, those wheels made me obsolete as a travel bag carrier. Fucking no one took that position but that bazinga didn't want to confront positions that were actually taken and kept doing victory laps while congratulating themself. jagoff

The most persistent take remaining was not even far off from my slight exaggeration of the conclusions drawn by that bazinga in the title of this thread: they claimed that there is no difference between LLMs and you, right now, sitting here reading this text. Persisting with that take with sea lioning tactics demanding that everyone else prove otherwise (so much for extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence) and dodging every refutation of it already in that thread, the implication of their take is that every time AI Dungeon tells you "Count Grey" might have shown up, uninvited, to your Gundam interactive fanfic, smirking and chuckling before violently murdering everyone in the room with "squelch" sounds, that isn't just a bad data set fed to it by edgelords: that was from a nascent potentially-sapient ghost in the machine that may soon be at least as intelligent as you. hypersus

Considering I'm shipping out in a few days and I really don't like posting from a phone so I'm likely to be away from here for an indefinite time after that, it almost feels like supernatural timing to have this sort of ultimate bazinga show up now. sweat

Yes I posted a lot in that particular thread about Redditors being really superstitious about the tech magic of LLMs, but then look who approached me.

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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    You know you could probably have a lot less stress in your life if you don't go around finding these IRL soyjaks to dunk on. Think of your cardiovascular health

    I actually am heading mostly off-grid in a few days for an indefinite time to fulfill some lifelong dreams. I'm no longer going to be anywhere near Silicon Valley so I won't have to see or hear or argue with bazingas (I hope) offline anymore either.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        Does writing my next book out in the woods count? monkey-typewriter

        • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          The Bazinga Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            11 months ago

            If your book's not a thinly veiled manifesto why even write it

            Looks at previous novel trilogy side-eye-1 side-eye-2

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            11 months ago

            Yeah. Contemporary story with some slight sci-fi elements. It's an inversion of sorts of the usual "what if the lights go out" collapse story but with leftist characteristics and a less misanthropic perspective than the usual "grizzled dudebro with a gun avenges fridged wife and protects daughter figure" slop. Don't want to give too much away until it's near release (and I've settled on its title).