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Vivek “I gave birth to myself” Ramaswamy

Oh it was for the KPIs? All is forgiven then. /s

HIGHER you insufferable twats. So much Higher.

Who does this guy think he is? Creedy McCreedson? Lead singer of Creed?

I think you should leave.

makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop

Can you gaslight people into thinking burnout is good, actually? HN gives it the ol’ college try

Shilling AI has much fewer downsides that walking on coals I guess

Non tech-focused AI scam:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/cops-called-after-parents-get-tricked-by-ai-generated-images-of-wonka-like-event/

A story from a couple months ago that I heard about just now from the scam goddess podcast.

Yeah, exactly. My first draft of this included this passage from the post:

If I ran the world, I would want newspapers to do the opposite of that - comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, that kind of thing. I would want it to find dirt on people who were puffed up way too high riding the top of the popularity wave, and find reasons to defend and stand up for people who were vulnerable and getting piled on. Still, it seems like in real life people do the opposite. Again, I don’t think I’m discovering anything surprising here, I just want to make this explicit for people who have otherwise just sort of been noticing it on the fringes of their consciousness.

Basically: "Why can't journalists just give nice guys like us a chance?"

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Totally agree.

IMO a better analogy would be clothing sweatshops rather than the power loom. Same utilitarian effect of textile affordability increases. Same ethical fuckery with exploitation of labour.