V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Okay, first of all, classic question from me, who the fuck is this? How many chuds were produced by the crypto bubble, it's insane, you could have a fucking Pokemon card deck with them. My brain already struggles to retain information about both SBF and Wrinklewusses, there are no more resources to be allocated to a Balaji.

Second, most of this is irrelevant bullshit even for the standards of a crypto grifter, but I really wanted to read the "Learn" section. First there's some nonsense about "proof-of-learn" which, again, completely irrelevant, and finally the single paragraph that actually says anything about the curricullum:

Our initial material focuses on founding tech communities, as distinct from tech companies.

Is there a word for stuff like this? Filler? Cruft? Meaningless, utterly redundant words that just pad the text. Anyway, this post is 90% that.

As such it touches on everything from crypto, AI, and social media to history, politics, and filmmaking.

So your idea of "everything" in tech is crypto, AI, and social media, in order: a useless tech that is already dead, an ill-defined hype term for tech that doesn't exist in the best case and is useless in the worst, and just a general concept of platforms with users? Don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot of software engineering by analysing the architecture of pre-collapse Twitter, like you can run an entire course on microservices just off the back of that, but I somehow doubt that's what this guy is selling.

It should be useful even if you’re just growing a traditional company or building a following.

What the fuck does this even mean. This should be useful if you're growing a company or not actually trying to do or achieve anything? Do you need any sort of education for "building a following"? What does that even mean, like a traditional Jim Jones-style following? You definitely don't need a school for that shit.

Also what's a non-traditional company? What's the avant-garde corporate trend now? Companies that actually turn a profit?

Over time, of course, every branch of the sciences and humanities becomes relevant when building a community.

I'm not sure what he categorises as "building a community" but I'm not sure if like molecular quantum mechanics ever become relevant for what in my head is community-building, as in establishing networks of support and communication between people. Just saying that choosing "building a community" as the guiding principle of what to include in your curriculum might tend to exclude some important branches of science.

Also lol, lmao even, dude how the fuck is AI or crypto relevant to building any sort of community other than a communal fart-sniffing chamber.

But we’re intentionally starting with something simple. Our learning is about continuous education, about solving the problem-of-the-day [emph. mine].

Oh, so they're gonna tackle climate change almost exclusively! You know, the actual problem-of-the-day we have in this current day! Wonder how crypto helps with that, though... 🤔

Anyway, in conclusion, your "university" doesn't have a coherent fucking curricullum, what are you even doing. I hope this is going to be a sex island, otherwise this is a giant waste of everyone's time.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

provide just enough service that you don’t go elsewhere.

It's not even that, is it? As long as they can force you to use their stuff it doesn't even have to provide any service.

If there was a way for Google to hold you at gunpoint via internet until you pay them $100 every day they'd have a fiduciary duty to do so.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

suggests goverment role

Imagining Batman sitting in Congress as an elected representative

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This vial has a 50/50 chance of containing cough medicine or cyanide, but hey, it's still better than no medicine!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

What the men do is irrelevant.

What most of the orange site frequenting men do is indeed irrelevant, though for different reasons than they think.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What's SB1047 about? The post doesn't clarify that in any way.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

The NFT "art" was already terrible procedurally-generated slop, so it fits the use case 100%.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it can guess their age and weight! It can even guess their socioeconomic group, and if they dye their hair.

But can it detect Inexplicable Cimmerian Vibes? Can it guess the haplogroup?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

Fill the body with bullets, it's a tested method. Although Aperture might've patented it 🤔

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

They're trying to kill the AGI by polluting the training data.

Project Wheatley

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Hegelian e-girls’ VIP “symposium”

Excuse the rather formal philosophical latin but qvid in fvck?

I tried looking through the post to find out what possibly they could have to do with Hegel and found

Thankfully, Matthew shared the Googledoc the e-girls had sent him with their prepared remarks. My commentary over the next several paragraphs will only make sense if you read over them (they’re mercifully short), so I’d urge everyone to open up the hyperlink and give it a quick look.

Okay, first of all, it's like 5 pages, "mercifully short" lol, go take a hike. Second,

Concrete philosophizing means applying insight to the alchemical transformation of everyday life.

This is in the first paragraph. I feel like reading this would make me devolve into an entire day of incoherent screaming and I have enough respect for my coworkers and loved ones to not subject them to that

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