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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    went and peeked at the ezra klein podcast on the off chance heā€™s gotten into anything interesting

    There's something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It's clear we're witnessing the advent of a wildly powerful technology, one that could transform the economy and the way we think about art and creativity and the value of human work itself. At the same time, can't for the life of me figure out how to use it in my own day-to-day job.
So wanted to understand what I'm missing and get some tips for how could incorporate A.Il. better into my life right now. And Ethan Mollick is the perfect guide: He's a professor at the Wharton School

    lol

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      To be fair, itā€™s hard to really internalize that all these rich and powerful techbros are actually morons after all these years of journalists like Ezra Klein breathlessly reporting their weird ideas and baseless claims about what they were going to be able to do in the next couple of years.

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      I rewrote it for accuracy:

      Thereā€™s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. Itā€™s clear weā€™re witnessing the advent of a wilfully stupid fart machine, one that could transform the atmosphere into farts and the way we think about farts and creating farts and the value of human farts itself. At the same time, I canā€™t for the life of me figure out why Iā€™d want to sit in a room filled with my own farts.

      So I wanted to understand what Iā€™m missing and get some tips for how I could incorporate farts better into my life right now. And Eating Mollusks is the perfect guide: Heā€™s a pro-fartor at the Fartinā€™ School at the University of Farts

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        the nuanced take nobody wants to hear: farts are a tool, and like any tool they can be used for good or bad. thatā€™s what progress is. we canā€™t let the possibility of a few bad uses of farts overshadow how farts can unleash the futures of truly creative individuals, businesses and societies.

        to address another common point: yes, there are kinks to be worked out. sometimes farted information can be wrong. farted music doesnā€™t always come out with the clarity we want. farted art is sometimes missing details. but farts are already revolutionizing and democratizing the arts, science, and even the concept of human interaction. we canā€™t lose sight of the great potential of farting - just like the early days of the internet, we donā€™t know what amazing things weā€™ll end up with because of it.

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      Who the hell is Ezra Klein? Some Joe Rogan type of guy with a lot of bad ideas on a podcast?

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          I guess it does, in the sense that I have asked ā€œwho tf is Matt Yglessias and why does anyone listen to himā€ many times and received no satisfactory explanation either