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1. VHRang+UW[view] [source] 2024-04-29 23:33:29
>>ra7+(OP)
Asterisk is one of the current great magazines to follow. Their articles have been great, even in domains I'm knowledgeable of.
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2. Nuzzer+ul1[view] [source] 2024-04-30 03:41:22
>>VHRang+UW
Eh? I’ve never heard of them until this article and my first impression of it was worse than bad.

The author seems full of hubris and the subject matter is a reformulated “tech journalism is broken” is comically late by, oh, about a decade. The author seems to be unaware that this isn’t a new thing.

Then there’s some cringeworthy stuff like unironically using the word normie before conjuring an irrelevant excuse to proudly remind everyone how easy political writing was in his corner of the society where there is only one correct candidate to support.

Author is also selling a paid subscription to an AI magazine. In one of the free articles he coins the phrase “singularism” (and used it in multiple articles) being oblivious to the fact that singularitarianism has existed for 30 years and means the same thing as his “catchphrase”. As the saying goes, “if you can’t pronounce singularitarian, you can’t be one”. https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-im-not-worried-about-a...

It’s alright folks, AGI is not a risk because the world isn’t a chessboard.

It just seems like a grift festival in there.

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