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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.
counterpoint: it gives openai more money
not necessarily/could be offset? openai is still in that āweāll set fire to money to make ourselves look goodā stage of VC dreamery; find entities operating on credits, slap there
but possibly even in the case where itās still straight transactional, it might be a net negative for them: revenue, actual usage, and still no meaningful shift on their product becoming good. itāll just make them look even worse
the bigger problem (to which this suggestion would most certainly contribute things getting worse) is that theyāre still burning other important resources. I donāt really have a good/clever proposal to this which isnāt something like āwell, burn their DCs to the fucking groundā (or other more creative forms of invasive service interruption)
they will burn through that money pretty quickly and without turning profit, however this can contribute to one of their ratfucked metrics to go up, which could hype up some segment of stonk market. because now theyāre fueled by hype and vc money, any new thing that would sustain that hype would be a bad thing (adoption here, kinda, at least as seen through excel)
i agree, 120mm mortar is much cheaper, faster, more irreversible, but openai going bankrupt and forced to sell their kit at least would generate less waste
and a net positive in terms of human happiness