BSOD now stands for bullshit on demand... thanks to AI
The Rise of the Bullshittery
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#22Those that can Do, those that can't Bullshit.
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#23Speaking of bullshittery, I don't really appreciate it's little game when it comes to trying to convince me to turn off JavaScript. It knows when you see it and you'll know when you see it.
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#25loving the overlay you get when you open it in a tab and then tab away
That was brilliant. Some of the ones I spotted: - FTX Cryptocurrency - Infowars - YouTube: Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom (lmao, what is this supposed to be?) - YouTube: MrBeast en Espanol - Netflix: Fifty Shades of Grey - ChatGPT: Online Debate Argument Suggestions (haha - I've never done that...) - Hacker News: The Internet Used to be Fun - Google: Zuckerberg Nudes - Official Church of Scientology
> YouTube: Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom (lmao, what is this supposed to be?)
LTT (Linus Tech Tips, a YouTube channel) have used it as a real title before. "Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom - Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCX8d8WSOg
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#26I think at least one approach that can work is de-globalization of social media into smaller, reputation/trust-ranked social networks. Discord is pretty good in this regard.
that sounds like making friends.
In order to make friends you kind of need to have spaces where you can meet people and trust them enough to make connections
In person is obviously the safest for this. For online friendships I feel the places to meet people you can trust aren't AI or Scammers has shrunk a ton
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#27I think at least one approach that can work is de-globalization of social media into smaller, reputation/trust-ranked social networks. Discord is pretty good in this regard.
If you have suggestions for good Discord servers, please share. The bullshittery is coming out of my ears. I don't quite know where to turn to anymore. There's HN. Reddit is getting a bit crazy, all other social media is a pass for me.
What topics are you interested in - I have about a dozen subscribed to.
Gaming? Webcomics? Fusion power? Space exploration?
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#28> bullshitter is not the same as the liar, because the liar at least respects the truth enough to try to hide it, but the bullshitter does not care whether what they are saying is true or false thus, by definition, all LLMs are bullshitters
I don't know about that. When you're prompting some LLM, the response you get is a statistically likely valid response to the prompt. Whether it contains any truth or facts or information at all is besides the point; the LLM has done its job of predicting something that is statistically likely to be the answer. The fact that people assign any weight to that information is the mistake.
> Whether it contains any truth or facts or information at all is besides the point
The definition of bullshit in the original article was precisely this: no care given to whether there is truth in what is said.
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#29> I found myself in one of the rare situations in which I was mindlessly doom-scrolling on LinkedIn
Yet, the biggest bullshittery, is every company that almost each of you work at requires a link to a LinkedIn account on every job application, not optional. It has become a form of social credit. LinkedIn isn't completely meaningless either. A huge portion of the posts are also propaganda. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda.
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#30I blame the ML engineers who work on these recommendation systems. They chase simplistic objectives like CTR, time spent, and so on, which can be gamed by this kind of content. This creates huge positive feedback loops in which popular content becomes even more popular and forms “metas,” while models train on clickstream data they themselves have influenced. They could try to fix this, but they won’t, because no one is asking them to