pulsewidthWhy are people hating on / blocking dgerard?
Fill me in, I’ve never heard of that user.
selfoxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag
however,
Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard?
let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because:
- you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank
- you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth
- you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
- you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
- you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia
there are more, we can go deeper
You’re an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug “a bad thing”
AI as the realization of Huey Lewis and the News iconic hit song “I Want a New Drug”