James Margaris

Genuinely sad that this is the end state of this sort of community - the biggest no-lifers imaginable constantly celebrating because a game's CCU is low. There's one dude there who posts like 200 times a day doing CCU grave dancing.

This is similar to the "rationalists" who believe AI will kill all humans. If they genuinely believe that they should be working frantically to kill all AI researches - that would be the rational response. Instead they just send tweets and write snarky blogs. It's pure LARP.

Ok correction - the story they planted was the one about schools giving out pro-furry homework (or something), which dovetailed with the litterboxes story. Now that said, Jesse's writeup incudes the following: "After all, who doesn’t long for the chance to debunk their own hoax?"

This is all extremely well-documented. The only question here is if Jesse knew about this hoax in advance or if his podcast producer went behind his back. But that producer wasn't fired or even reprimanded, and the hoax was made into podcast "content" so hmm....

YOU STARTED THE RUMOR. Your podcast producer wrote about this AT LENGTH and you did an episode about how YOU planted this story. You want credit for debunking a hoax that YOU perpetrated? Be serious.

One of the episodes was 112. They claim that they planted the story as a sort of Sokal test. So Jesse, who is obsessed with what he thinks are outrageous identity issues among kids, made up a story about outrageous identity issues among kids, but as some sort of double-reverse psychology? Lol.

One of the fascinating aspects of the people who have gone berserk over AI is that AI - which they claim to put their full faith in - regularly contradicts them on their world view and on their claims about AI capabilities.

I think it's weird that 3 months ago you were a normal person and now your entire life revolves entirely around a holy war you imagine you're in with "antis." Nobody is even fighting against you, your tweets get zero or one replies lol. It's all from reading Reddit or whatever.

"People who say they don't like AI are fascists!" Here's an idea: open an AI chatbot (lol) and ask it what "fascism" is and is not. And if saying you dislike a thing - with no enforcement power whatsoever - qualifies. I'm not joking just go do that right now and report back!

I think it's weird that 3 months ago you were a normal person and now your entire life revolves entirely around a holy war you imagine you're in with "antis." Nobody is even fighting against you, your tweets get zero or one replies lol. It's all from reading Reddit or whatever.

Crazy that this series is devoted to missing the point of the original and balking on the single most interesting aspect of it. I watched the movie in I dunno...the 90s? And I still remember Carrie losing it and murdering even the people who were nice to her. That *makes* the movie!

This is what I've been talking about with regards to romantasy readers and how their attitude is becoming widespread. All "content" is becoming kink/fetish porn where people know exactly what they want and demand work that, while low quality, checks every box.

Porn chatbots and such make sense as a product because people have very specific wants and don't care if the quality is bad. But I think it's very bad that people use that same approach with all fiction writing, TV, video games, etc. This dovetails with AI but I don't think it's an AI issue exactly.

I do find it funny that after 15 years of telling people that all modern hardware is super duper fast if you just git gud at programming and code to da metal that Order of the Sinking Star runs poorly on Switch 2. "Everyone is bad at programming except - oops I mean including - myself!"

I'm really baffled by the people who see someone's youtube subs drop from 1.5 million to a paltry 1.48 million and are prompted to write an essay like "and yet you say you believe in prison abolition? Haven't we learned anything about draconian punishments?" Like...did you get lost?