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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

No, all you lawyers explaining to me how the practice of law works in the U.S., you would totally benefit from GPT. Complete with bonus:

  • Everyone explaining to me that lawyers actually read all the documents in discovery is really trying to explain to me, a computer scientist with 20 years of experience[1], how GPT works!
  • [1] Does OP have actual tech expertise? The answer may (not) surprise you!
  • You lawyers admit that sometimes you use google translate and database search engines, and those use machine learning components, and all ML is basically LLMs, so I'm right, Q.E.D.!
  • Lawyers couldn't possibly read everything in discovery, right?
  • Lawyers couldn't possibly pay for professional translation for everything, right?
  • Even when it's mandated by the court?
  • Really?
  • and many, many more
[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This thread is an unending source of amusement.

Someone there found his ORCID and... It's not great: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2835-3521

He has basically nothing published, but has like 40 different "preprints", read PDFs he uploaded to arxiv with no peer review.

I use these tools daily. I have also built software which utilizes genAI. I have also worked on fine-tuning GPTs. I have written extensive [sic!] on the topic. I also have formal training in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and anthropology^1^. [emph. mine]

🤡


^1^ No he doesn't? His Education lists A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Mathematics, that anthropology claim seems completely made up.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Those "papers" are gold, they're mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:

  • How to calculate a mean of numbers?
  • What is a number?
  • Atheism is actually a religion.
  • Ethereum is a store of energy.

I've never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isn't healthy.

[-] alm@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

They’re all blog posts that refer to no actual work, my favorite is the one where he advocates for his blog posts to be accepted to journals: Call to Research: A need for a new paper format

This is mostly whining about how he’s totally an academic and people should take him seriously.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Jesus cinnamon crunch Christ. At least the blog posts are mercifully short. He somehow manages to have antivaxx nonsense there as well??

This is doubly funny because that already exists, at least in Computer Science, and is called a vision paper. You still need to put in a lot of work, perhaps more, into the bibliography and, you know, actually having compelling stuff to say.

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