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> The crypto-bros-turned-AGI-experts on twitter are spouting the most uninformed, misguided garbage about this whole thing, it's quite amazing to watch. After
by kibwen 3y ago
> The crypto-bros-turned-AGI-experts on twitter are spouting the most uninformed, misguided garbage about this whole thing, it's quite amazing to watch.
After the LK-99 debacle where Twitter "confirmed" its superconductivity and breathless sheisters heralded the dawn of a new age, my new policy is "inverse Twitter": if Twitter thinks something is a big deal, then it's more than than 50% likely that it's unsubstantiated horsepucky. The signal:noise ratio on Twitter has always been uselessly low, but the post-crypto scene has plumbed heretofore unfathomable depths.
- ethanbond 3y agoWhy not just assess each question and each position on its merits, as best you can? No clue why people try to come up with these obviously silly heuristics.
- pixel8account 3y agoHow am I, someone with no experience in AI, supposed to make an informed decision? Certainly not by myself. By reading experts on the topic? But which experts? Twitter ones? In the day of misinformation we need some heuristics (or trusted experts), just look what happened during COVID when people with no experience in medicine suddenly decided they can make their own conclusions.
- _heimdall 3y agoPeople without the ability to understand the current body of knowledge and make an educated conclusion, caveated with the known and unknown gaps in current knowledge, simply shouldn't be trying to make conclusions. Making a decision for oneself is totally reasonable, but there should be a high bar as soon as someone tries to push that as a conclusion that others should follow. The problem during the pandemic response wasn't that individuals tried to understand and decide for themselves, its that those who were supposed experts got out over their skis and were forcing decisions and conclusions that weren't backed up by data. What's wrong with someone reading studies and deciding whether they themselves want to get vaccinated or west masks, especially when we didn't have solid data to show how those decisions might impact others' rights?
- dorkwood 3y agoHN wasn't much better during the whole LK-99 debacle. The crowd wasn't at all welcoming to skeptics.
- tim333 3y agoIf you were selective on Twitter, one of the best guys was saying it's all over about 24 hours after the hype started and way before the general press got there. The trick is to try to filter the experts from the fools.