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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Read that last one against my better judgment, and found a particularly sneerable line:
Now, I'm not particularly smart, but I am capable of a lot of things AI will never achieve. Like knowing something is true, or working out a problem, or making something which isn't slop.
Between this rat and Saltman spewing similar shit on Politico, I have seen two people try to claim text extruders are smarter than living, thinking human beings. Saltman I can understand (he is a monorail salesman who lies constantly), but seeing someone who genuinely believes this shit is just baffling. Probably a consequence of chatbots destroying their critical thinking and mental acuity.
Let's not forget the perennial favorite "humans are just stochastic parrots too durr" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452238
to be scrupulously fair, the submission is flagged, and most of the explicit rat comments are downvoted
There have been a lot of cases in history of smart people being bested by the dumbest people around who just had more guns/a gun/copious amounts of meth/a stupid idea but they got lucky once, etc.
I mean, if they are so smart, why are they stuck in a locker?
It's practically a proverb that you don't ask a scientist to explain how a "psychic" is pulling off their con, because scientists are accustomed to fair play; you call a magician.