[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

There is a certain irony to everyone involved in this argument, if it can be called that.

don’t do this debatefan here crap here, thanks

This, and similar writing I’ve seen, seems to make a fundamental mistake in treating time like only the next few, decades maybe, exist, that any objective that takes longer than that is impossible and not even worth trying, and that any problem that emerges after a longer period of time may be ignored.

this isn’t the article you’re thinking of. this article is about Silicon Valley technofascists making promises rooted in Golden Age science fiction as a manipulation tactic. at no point does the article state that, uh, long-term objectives aren’t worth trying because they’d take a long time??? and you had to ignore a lot of the text of the article, including a brief exploration of the techno-optimists and their fascist ties (and contrasting cases where futurism specifically isn’t fascist-adjacent), to come to the wrong conclusion about what the article’s about.

unless you think the debunked physics and unrealistic crap in Golden Age science fiction will come true if only we wish long and hard enough in which case, aw, precious, this article is about you!

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

archive.ph is usually my go-to (and I’m hoping they don’t secretly suck). here’s their archive for that page

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

oh I’m not at all surprised. part of why we ban early and often is it’s very easy for posters like that to flood threads with utter bullshit, beyond anyone’s amusement but their own, much faster than anyone can respond with anything approaching the truth (because writing truth takes time, but being a big pain in the ass fanboy for a telephone psychic takes no time at all)

[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

how are you this unable to shut the fuck up

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

I think I’ve met that guy! they’re the weirdest person I’ve ever seen get bounced from a leftist group under suspicion of being a fed (the weird crypto shit was the straw that broke the camel’s back)

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

from the same CS minds who brought you “the solution to the halting problem is trivial, just ask the computer if it halted. hyperturing!”

[-] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

hahahaha that’s all you took from these replies? I’m not fucking surprised. off you fuck, logic boy

[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

What about addiction risk?

The data on this are really poor because it’s hard to define addiction. If a prescription stimulant user uses their stimulants every day, and feels really good on them, and feels really upset if they can’t get them…well, that’s basically the expected outcome.

did I just watch Scott try to reply guy addiction out of existence?

also, all the paragraphs Scott uses to call his patients liars and insinuate that other psychiatrists have guilty consciences are really uncomfy? cause it really feels like a normal response to the situations he’s describing is “boy I’m getting a lot of folks with ADHD and neurodivergent traits and all they seem to want is one treatment for it, maybe I should examine that more closely” and not “look at all these normal-brained fucks with intense problems focusing coming to me for drugs, which I’m certain the other pill-pushers in my industry will give them without question. welp time to not even attempt to establish a therapeutic dosage or even guidelines around how much to take since this is a fun safe party drug”

[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

but crucially, this weird fucker is still trying to have sex with a calculator in front of the whole school

[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

also, sincerely, can anyone explain to me what’s good about Yud’s writing? this shit is structured exactly like a goosebumps short except instead of being written by a likeable author targeting grade schoolers it’s written by some asshole who loves using concepts he doesn’t understand, targeting other assholes who don’t understand fucking anything because all their knowledge got filtered through Yud

[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

the exact same schtick as an annoying edgy IRC kid setting up a fake chatbot under an alt account to send insults and threats to the channels they frequent, under the extremely flimsy excuse that they’re not doing it, their alt account pretending to be a bot is

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