1. Post in !techtakes@awful.systems attacks the entire concept of AI safety as a made-up boogeyman
  2. I disagree and am attacked from all sides for “posting like an evangelist”
  3. I give citations for things I thought would be obvious, such as that AI technology in general has been improving in capability compared to several years ago
  4. Instance ban, “promptfondling evangelist”

This one I’m not aggrieved about as much, it’s just weird. It’s reminiscent of the lemmy.ml type of echo chamber where everyone’s convinced it’s one way, because in a self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone who is not convinced gets yelled at and receives a ban.

Full context: https://ponder.cat/post/1030285 (Some of my replies were after the ban because I didn’t PT Barnum carefully enough, so didn’t realize.)

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Every post from awful.systems is angry about something and half the time I have no idea what they’re even angry about and I’m afraid to ask.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
      2·
      6 hours ago

      There’s a guy in the friend group who is SUPER amped up about how hetero he is. He talks about it, and how he hates the gays, regularly.

      There’s a bank that runs CONSTANT billboards about how you’re not just a number to them, you’re an important human being, and they pay a smiling lady in the commercials to be super friendly so you’ll know they really care about you.

      There’s a community on Lemmy whose whole reason for being is that they are WAY smarter than all these people writing these articles. We don’t even have to debate, because they KNOW they’re way smarter, super smart, and everyone else is dumb. They can’t stop talking about how much smarter they are, it seems like that part is more important to them than the tech, for them to tell you all about.