JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.

WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?

Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?

And therapy? Just… 😑

What’s wrong with people in tech?

@baldur I thought all these use cases were already covered by blockchain?!

😁

@aguleb @baldur Blockchain has covered absolutely *no* use-cases except for “the need for blockchain technology to exist” and “to automate the waste of electricity to a comically absurd degree”.

@enoch_exe_inc by that, do you mean that distributed ledgers are a bogus idea, or that only blockchain is a bad realisation and there are better ones, and if so, could you point me in that direction please?

@aguleb @baldur

@tivasyk @enoch_exe_inc @aguleb @baldur
People are prone to confusing a technology itself from its application in late stage capitalism.
Blockchain is an incredibly useful technology that's been steered toward evil.

@AeonCypher @tivasyk @enoch_exe_inc @aguleb @baldur

Sounds like what was said about physics to a buncha people in Hiroshima.

@BigBadDog @tivasyk @enoch_exe_inc @aguleb @baldur
I was going to drop this, but it's just straight pissed me off.
Hiroshima is not a fucking joke. It's skin melting off of flesh as people walk the streets like zombies begging for water, but any water they can find only expedites their death.
It's mother milk poisoning babies, and shadows of people left behind.
The analogy is so wildly off base that I didn't call you disgusting as a matter of hyperbole. Your comment was horrifying to a level that is hard to put words to. You should absolutely be ashamed.
It's also ironic, because it disproves the very point you make. Japan is a country that heavily utilized nuclear energy after World War 2. Because it wasn't fission that snuffed out the beauty of life in a flash of destruction, it was the evils, and in some cases misguiding of men, that wrought this destruction.
It's however, so much easier to be lazy and target and blame the physics than it is to blame the military industrial complex, easier to point to fission, than to point to the complex web of imperialism that led to the war.
Just like it's so much easier to point to blockchain, than to ask why people are allowed to rob us of clean air. So much easier to point to bitcoin as a technology than to address the system that made bitcoin successful in the first place.
Kindly, fuck off.