FredFig

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[–] FredFig@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's also just less effective this time around. Everyone's afraid of being poor, capitalism as it exists functions based on that, so there's a strong emotion that gets people wrapped up with the NFT hype train.

It's a lot less convincing to go "Have fun being as productive as you are right now, loser.", at least without also going mask off and sounding like a supervillain.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Chat-GPT-TFSD-21guns can have a little anthropomorphism, as a treat.

  • Sam Altman, probably
[–] FredFig@awful.systems 55 points 2 weeks ago

This is somehow even sadder than "I have depicted you as the wojak".

"I contracted the least efficient computer possible to depict myself as the chad, therefore I win."

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I believe its because they A-B tested his thumbnails, editors found that they vacuumed slightly more eyeballs when he was smiling, and updated the thumbnail images of him not smiling with photoshop.

The fault isn't with the photoshop though, he just doesn't have a soul so it actually looks like that when he smiles.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's the imbalance of power. No one wants to be the gatekeeper at the local game store telling the 12 year old kid "Sorry, you can't play your Spongebob deck here tonight", whereas as the ones printing the cards, they can be gatekeepers of "Sorry, you can't play your deck without the One Ring here tonight" off of the basis of "normal" power creep.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Skimming the reddit thread in search of general public sentiment about this, but unfortunately mostly just found a greatest hits compilation of very gross comments.

According to these very smart people, parents should expect your teenager to die as an outcome of not being perfect people 24/7, technology can never be at fault even when it literally tells you to commit suicide in coded language, and it's actually impossible to understand which parts of society are causing kids to be depressed, so we must take it as a given that we can't do anything about it. I regret having done this to myself.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

https://github.com/SatoshiNT0 Satoshi really got into emojis, I guess?

🌱 I’m currently learning ... Quantum Cryptography.

💞️ I’m looking to collaborate on ... our world!

Cool.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The Network School offers Johnson’s healthy food and a fitness program called the Blueprint Protocol. He claims that after three years of following his blueprint the duration of his night-time erections totals 179 minutes, “better than the average 18-year-old”

Yeah, this is a very normal diet that's advertising itself in very normal ways.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The logical conclusion of normalizing "Social Media Manager" as a role in companies is that as they get better at their jobs and become more believable, the average corporate communication will trend towards 13-year old edgy shitposter. God I feel old.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm thoroughly convinced Musk is an AI generated person and his life's goal is simply to find the AI that generated him.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

I know generally speaking, people want to use very exacting language when talking about technicals, so it's not that strange when people hedge edge cases - it's just what they're taught to do in their careers.

But, when we're talking about financials, instead of being detailed and careful, it's just sounds desperate when you have to tack on a hundred dollar value add to your supposedly million dollar company.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

That same tired script of "You can't say AI is useless, I use it as a $productivityApp, so it's clearly not worth nothing, which invalidates all your claims." shows up in Zitron's comment box, it's like clockwork.

I dunno man, maybe it's because the ability to generate templates and spellcheck is a free feature in most IDEs and would be a rounding error of a rounding error when we're talking about billion dollar investments?

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