Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
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.
elon musk and yann lecun are slinging shit at each other on twitter, one of casualties is scientific method
name rings a bell but whoās that? i have figured out that heās probably not a cultist
found there https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/1d34nzj/there_are_many_things_wrong_with_this_statement/
wdym? who lecun is, or something else?
but also holy shit at āto quality as Science a piece of research must be correctā wow thatās a shit opener. like that literally plays directly into the hands of the batshit antiscience nutjobs with the ābut science changes its mind all the time! how could it then ever have been correct!ā tagline
and Capital-S Science everywhere. is this a church now?
yeah, lecun
itās correct because it says itās correct
also āscience is published scienceā mdpi likes that, and also weird to see his claim of 80 papers since 2022 (https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/16521037) that are mostly preprints on background of him saying that peer review is Important
LeCun did actual noteworthy work in AI research previously and is now a shill at Meta.
I must note that even LeCun 2024 could casually shit better science than Musk could ever do.
yeah the guy used to be respected, then went off the deep end. lot of linguists I follow were dunking on some epically bad takes that lecun had in recent years. heās definitely drinking the koolaid afaict
This isnāt a shit opener as this isnāt an opener (at least I hope so, I have seen parts of this conversation, and didnāt check timestamps, and I assume it didnāt start this dumb), Musk is having a longer conversaition with LeCun here, and it is a great example of why you shouldnāt wrestle with pigs. The pig doesnāt care about facts, is just there to entertain itself, and eventually you will do something stupid (like this claim about science) and you will be covered in mud.
The conversation started with Musk going: āWell what research did YOU do you nobody?ā To which LeCun said āat least 80 papers on AI since 2022 how much did you do?ā which Musk Le Epic countered with āthat is not enough you are slackingā.
Donāt feed the trolls, esp not when the troll is a billionaire who needs a security detail to get out of the toilet.
this could have begun here https://xcancel.com/ylecun/status/1795034443809165464#m thatās bulk of the thread i think https://xcancel.com/ylecun/status/1795589846771147018#m
i received brain damage from replies. everyone has a bluecheck
Iām gonna make a bot with a yellowcheckmark that just replies wargames āA strange game. The only winning move is not to tweetā at all their tweets.
martin shkreli is an e/acc now