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#SilentSunday

Sign outside a toilet showing various representations of men, women, trans and so on saying: "We don't care just please wash your hands"

#TransRights

I'm not challenging your authority, I'm denying it exists.
This is a homerun of a joke
Um den Rant abzuschließen: Diese DienstleistungsmentalitĂ€t und diese Erwartungshaltung finde ich schlimm. Wir machen uns mit diese Veranstaltung viel Arbeit, sind von super vielen externen Faktoren abhĂ€ngig und von ganz viel GĂŒte und Wohlwollen abhĂ€ngig. Das ist ja eigentlich auch der hauptsĂ€chliche Grund warum es jetzt so laufen muss. Nicht weil wir das unbedingt möchten, aber weil eben bedenken von extern kamen, auch wenn ich das mal nicht so konkret benennen möchte
Übrigens: Wenn ihr euch (z.B im Zuge der Anmeldungen fĂŒr die GPN) so unmenschlich, aggressiv und irrational verhaltet wie manche es hier scheinbar meinen tun zu mĂŒssen, muss ich ganz ehrlich sagen: solche Leute möchte ich gar nicht auf der Veranstaltung haben. Das lĂ€sst ja doch tiefer blicken als gewĂŒnscht.
#gpn #gpn23 #entropia #gpn2025
Man könnte jetzt in die Talkshows Aussteiger aus der AfD einladen, Mitarbeiter von Nazi Aussteiger Programmen, Opfer von AfD TĂ€tern, Politiker, die ĂŒber den Umgang mit AfD Politikern im Bundestag erzĂ€hlen. Aber nein, man wird wieder Nazis einladen die sagen, wir sind keine Nazis.
A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi
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I posted this on twitter ~3y ago and it struck a chord.

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Guess what job Mark holds? He is VC. No wonder he said AI will replace all jobs except his own because he is so special. He said AI will write software, create music, direct movies, write best novels, perform surgeries on human hearts, and whatnot. The only thing it won’t be able to do is invest money as a VC, which must be reserved for special people like him. #ai
@nixCraft It's funny because I'm relatively certain his job can be replaced with a D20 and a bag of money.

@art_codesmith @nixCraft

Chat CEO is a thing.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

@art_codesmith @nixCraft once read that a study found there to be surprisingly well-performing portfolios held by the illustrious group of ... dead people. Maybe Marc's a member, at least he doesn't seem at all well to me.
@art_codesmith @nixCraft IMO it is funny because (not even kidding) I think that VC might indeed be something that could be done well by some machine learning thingy (avoiding the term "AI", because it is not "I").
@nixCraft he's such a asshole
@rickpelletier @nixCraft
I think you might mean 'craven piece-of-shit.'
@nixCraft he's clearly never had to do anything with a legacy codebase.
@nixCraft There's always going to be room for those who practice traditional crafts. Making guillotines, for example.
@nixCraft he is kinda right. Having more money than brains is a real job, but it’s hard to automate the “having money” part.
@mms @nixCraft well... Banks are hooked up to the internet these days
@nixCraft and what is meant by VC by the way
@franco_vazza @nixCraft I think it's venture capitalist... But also just guessing
@Bene @nixCraft thanks! Ok...next I will need to Google what that even means, but it's my problem I guess.
@franco_vazza
Most modern company in anything STEM from missile launch system to food delivery were either incubated in an incubator or at a ceratain point looking for money from investors. Those investors are usually called VC, because of an Americanization of business, that is Venture Capitalists. But they are just glorified investors. They are private entites throwing money on failed ventures until one out of hundreds start making money, hence the name Capitalista di Ventura.
@Bene @nixCraft
@franco_vazza @Bene @nixCraft TBH, I suspect not knowing what VC means indicates that you're doing life correctly.
@naught101 @Bene @nixCraft ahahahah maybe. It's just that I've never dealt with a VC, whatever this is, in astronomy, it's not their habitat it seems.
@Bene @franco_vazza @nixCraft I was thinking to Vibe Coder 😅
@Bene @franco_vazza @nixCraft I think you mean vulture capitalist.
@franco_vazza @nixCraft Im just spit balling, but maybe "Vulture Cunt"?

@franco_vazza @nixCraft

Venture Capitalist, basically someone with money who invests in companies, usually at the early stages.

@nixCraft Guy who has never experienced art: "my investment decisions are art, actually"
@nixCraft The most demanding role for Vincent D'Onofrio in a long time.

@nixCraft

The irony is that the people most easily replaceable by AI are folks like himself: managers and executives. People with no detailed technical abilities, just middle/high level managers.

@nixCraft The world would be much better place if he dropped dead on the spot.
@nixCraft It's the first thing Autonomous AI will do. Eat up all Edgy and Veteran Capitalist, in the sense they'll be retired and AAI will Thankforyourservice them
@nixCraft VCs are modern slaveholders. The most parasitic class in our times. The scum of the earth.
@nixCraft "there's an intangibility to it", unlike highly tangible and methodical things like creating music or a novel.
@nixCraft AI can already do VC work
 it’s proven capable of burning other peoples’ money and being right about once in every twenty attempts.
@timoj @nixCraft this sounds worse than just hiring an orangutan to do the job

@nixCraft Look, you can care or not care but every frat party that he walked into, everyone stopped and thought "what is up with that dude's head?"

The trauma changes a person.

@nixCraft the rare circumstance when the ad hominem is the least cruel of the alternatives.

@nixCraft when anyone whose job isn’t literally art of some sort says “there’s an intangible quality to it”, it means they don’t actually understand their job. This is ok
 until they, like Marc here, try to claim that it’s inherently not understandable.

Alongside all the other problems, that’s a hell of a lack of humility

@socketwench

@calcifer "Hell of a lack of humility"...I think you just described the entire VC role.
@nixCraft Oh how the mighty have fallen. I suppose everybody has forgotten what he did before he became a colossal a-hole. Too late now because he's a colossal a-hole.

@sgsax @nixCraft

You are referring to him “borrowing” ideas from others? ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

Marc Andreessen - Wikipedia

@nixCraft I would argue AI is more suited to making VC decisions. It's very good at taking in large datasets and discovering "hidden" patterns.
@nixCraft It’s cause AI doesn’t yet have the classic Silicon Valley egg shaped head.
@nixCraft more art than science? Does he mean the art that he claims that ai can do?
@nixCraft Investing money is more art than science, but art is 100% science.
@nixCraft to me it sounds he operates on pure luck only! Hubris!

@nixCraft this is great example of how a technological singularity must be preceded by a capital singularity, unless we create system change.

It’s not hard to imagine that anything would be more tolerable than a capital singularity.

@nixCraft When the first AI invests successfully, the VC ladder will crumble and all these chodes will come falling down off it.

It will be glorious đŸ˜©

@nixCraft ~~taste, psychology, chaos tolerance~~ patterns. AI is gonna love it, Marc. This is class-war propaganda.
@nixCraft what he is actually saying is that VC follows no verifiable principles and everyone in it just makes stuff up every day. So it's actually the one job any LLM could take over currently.
@nixCraft So if it's more art than science, and AI is already "replacing" artists..... Do these people even listen to themselves?
@nixCraft It's funny since AI is already outperforming all human traders in the stock, bond, and other asset markets. I thought this guy styled himself as a futurist?
@nixCraft Gotta admire, or at least boggle at, the ego of someone willing to stand up and say "we suck at our jobs, no really we're *horrible* at them!" in pubic with no sense of shame, irony, or self-reflection.
@nixCraft ah yes VC, truly the hardest and most important profession in the world
@nixCraft They truly think they can surpass their nature as a human being with money.

@nixCraft That's fine, when the banks lose everyone's money and apply debt across the board because of an AI "mistake" nobody is qualified to fix because AI is perfect or something, all he'll have is his house and possessions to save him.

"Fix it as it goes" isn't sufficient to replace people. What a jackass.

@nixCraft the entire investor class should just be put on a big yacht without internet access and sent on a never ending cruse. Of course we'll send them supplies. All the champagne and caviar the ever wanted. Then they can lecture each other all day and the rest of the world is much better off.
@nixCraft “
it takes a special kind of intelligence to piss away billions of dollars on other people’s bad ideas. AI can’t do that
a dartboard could
unless you are good at darts in which case it can’t. Anyway, I actually need to go
my wife’s purse dog needs a new LV collar in beige. I’m taking the jet
no the place is about 15 minutes away. I’m just going to have the pilot take a few loops around the city to relax and come back.”