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daniellamyoung_3h

Unpopular opinion: you only hate chat gpt because it makes it harder to stack rank and discriminate against people.

So what everyone can write well now? great it's a tool! Just like moving faster because you drive a car.

The good news is you'll be easily able to hire for that writing job you need. The bad news is you won't be able to discriminate against candidates who are not as good with the written word.

Also, an obsession with the written word is a tenant of white supremacy [salute emoji]

Ian Rennie
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Man, this probably hits really hard if you're fuckin stupid.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

my heuristic: I can understand a shitty past giving crescent to bad reactions, but the moment you start choosing bad things with current-era things I rapidly start losing grace and patience

(and yeah I know there's a continuum of stuff between A and B, but anyone showing up in a fucking news article of this shape is generally well past accident)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that through her experience, she has developed a career around analysing cults (as well as other things) which is great! We need that in the world.

However she has unfortunately missed the areas where her expertise would be really insightful (SV itself basically) and taken this weird tack. Dunning Kruger be like that sometimes

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, that’s a five dollar word if I’ve ever seen one.

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago
[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Oh no, I think I've seen people talk about her memoir! I've heard it's good!