I never really followed his blog so the thing that I mostly know him for is that during the days of metoo he wrote a post about “well I am an awkward nerd but I hope I haven’t sexually harassed my coworkers, but also I couldn’t possibly say because I’m a nerd and I feel bad for all the nerds that have sexually harassed their coworkers”. Got tweeted at angrily for a few days and half a decade later still holds a grudge about it.
That said Vis A Vis nerds vs everyone else I recommend reallifemag.com/what-was-the-nerd/
“the same way you choose your gym membership” “like you choose your broadband provider.”
Ah, so utter dystopia.
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So a real fucked up layer to this is that part of the reason chatGPT talks the way it does is because it’s been fine-tuned to do so.
And a lot of that fine tuning is done by outsourced African labor. We know about Kenyan and Ghana workers at minimum.