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You'll have the same "aha" moment when you hear a certain unelected vice-president confidently wade into your area of expertise — where his usual smooth-talking
by spiderfarmer 2y ago
You'll have the same "aha" moment when you hear a certain unelected vice-president confidently wade into your area of expertise — where his usual smooth-talking veneer shatters like a plate at a Greek wedding. Yet, his most devoted fans remain undeterred, doubling down on the myth of his omniscience with the zeal of a flat-earther explaining airline routes.
- brap 2y ago>Hmm, now how can I make this about Trump/Elon? You might want to lay off the news/Reddit for a while
- spiderfarmer 2y agoIt’s not about him—it’s about recognizing hubris. If someone confidently blunders into your domain and reveals they have no idea what they’re talking about, it’s universally amusing, regardless of the person. Thanks for showing us how eager some people are to defend personas over substance.
- brap 2y agoI didn’t defend anyone. I don’t even like them. I pointed out that you jumped to make this LLM post about them, which is telling, just like you jumped to blame me for defending them, which is also telling.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoPointing to a real-life example of overhyped intelligence in a discussion about overhyped intelligence seems pretty fair to me. If your response is to attack and assume I’m too sensitive about overconfident billionaires, I’ll have to assume you’re just as sensitive about criticism of people you admire. Otherwise you would have moved on.
- umeshunni 2y agoYou're talking about Al Gore discussing climate change, right?
- spiderfarmer 2y agoBingo! The final straw was when Al bought a social media platform just to boost his own overconfident posts about a wide range of subjects. When he claimed to be the world’s best Diablo player I just lost it.
- umeshunni 2y agoYeah, Al Gore buying Slashdot and ruining it was the worst thing that happened to social media in the early 2000s and gave rise to the likes of MySpace and later Facebook.
- qingcharles 2y agoI'll never forgive Al for renaming it eGore.