It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
The start of Kendrick Lamar’s bitch im in the club haha
It’s the death of expertise
Absolutely correct.
I'm reading Yanis Varoufakis's book Technofeudalism and he talks about how one of the few things workers have that's still valuable to companies is experience. Not just knowledge but how to use that knowledge. It feels like AI is trying to take that away too.
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the right has always been intellectually, morally, and physically lazy
Probably post on social media next...
They have thoughts. They just don’t want facts interfering with them.
Here's an idea. Bucky AI - a LLM trained solely on the thoughts, culture, literature, content and comments of MAGA. This would be great fun. Write your next cover letter. Tell your next story. Develop your next dating profile. All in real time, in the persona of an actual MAGA cult member.
Or enjoy reading. Reading "just for fun" is in fact fun! And while reading for work or academic research is usually more slog than pleasure it has it's own immediate and long-term rewards.
Did you see that one post with that smug AI dumbass who was all “you waste two hours of your day reading, I tell ChatGPT the book and I get a summary in 2 minutes?”
Yes and my brain momentarily locked up in pity, disgust and disbelief. How sad must life be with no spark of curiosity or imagination? Or context! And for me one of the few uncomplicated pleasures of SM is catching a snippet of an interesting topic that sends me down a rabbithole of new knowledge
That’s the problem with tech bros; it’s all content to be consumed and value extracted It’s just there to be bullet pointed to infinity
And some know it's ALL (current iteration, valuation, capacity, usefulness, etc) bullshit but they're in it for the bull run. While the rest are too cultish, ignorant, vacuous and/or greedy to realize or accept it.
You talk about ignorant etc, but can you really think of NO useful use (or find, as they are plenty). I am not sure why you call it BS, e.g. for me it made an immense difference in my every-day life, including quality-of-life and speed of getting into new topics, personalized teacher, etc etc..
My reference to "ignorance" was part of a thread re: tech bros, those who view of the written, curated, edited and published word/info, etc as "content to be extracted" without acknowledging the value consumers find in reading (nor the author's work value in creating the info TB's want to distill)
Regarding "BS" that was in reference to the Tech Bro's current almost $Trillion market valuation of AI+ LLM. Re: Do I think there is usefulness, on the consumer level? Simple answer, YES. BUT there are many caveats. And remember "If a product is free (or low-cost), you are the product".
Sums up my thoughts perfectly. If you want to repeat something that has already been said millions or billions of times online, then stolen by a corporation to train a token guessing robot, that's your business. But I look down on you.
It’s really the arrogance of their entire mindset that amazes: “Oh look, I’ve hacked learning, you stupid lib readers!” When it’s really “I know how to press the button on a bullshit dispenser” Basically, “My Dunning Kruger goes to 11”
Very true.
that's because they themselves don't want to [have/do those things] ?
Preach it man, bad sign for where we are headed. Learning new things are what keeps life interesting!
Ooh, I wrote a thing somewhat related to this:
I've been having similar thoughts for quite a while now, dubbed it the age of the veneer
I think describing this as an anglosphere phenomenon is a bit ridiculous, since the hunt for hollow status is a pretty global issue. But other than that, I also think a lot of people are genuinely stupid or uninformed enough to think that LLM shit actually works.
the way they think it's some kind of flex to crow about how quickly they can create a prompt and get a result spat out makes it pretty clear that these are people who can't even write a boilerplate email on their own
To them, human existence is a problem. The fact that humans need to learn and do things (and most importantly that you have to pay them for it) is a problem. But also, we need more of them and they aren't having enough babies.
This. This right here.
This is what I feel whenever these guys talk about AI 'democratising' art. It already was democratised. Basic art supplies aren't expensive. They all just suck at it because they could not be bothered learning some artistic skills.
If you can spend on any non-essentials and don’t have to work 2 jobs to get buy. UBI would be a lot better than AI if the goal is really helping more people to hone creative skills.
people have made art forever, long before the concept of buying supplies.
Are you suggesting honing artistic skill doesn't take time and some kind of supplies?
sorry, not at all saying that, just saying people have always found a way. draw on brown grocery bags or walls with kids' crayons. make images in the dirt with sticks and rocks and leaves. scratch into found wood with sharp rocks. nine of these may be preferred but they are viable.
"We don't need to stop our trillion dollar plagiarism scam, we just need society to develop UBI, something we definitely weren't diametrically opposed to up until five minutes ago." - every worthless AI excuser
You can literally just get some #2 pencils and some printer paper for less than a dollar
Or by asking your 5 year old nephew.
That's great, if you have people you can ask for supplies.
So are you arguing against UBI or what exactly? There is also more to art than sketching.
Nah UBI would be massively helpful for giving someone time to develop a skill, I just hate the argument that you can’t afford to start doing art. There is more to art than painting with expensive paints and stuff
True; you can start with very little. just trying to debunk the argument that “ai is an equalizer and if you oppose it you are elitist.”
WELL said. FIY, I wrote just yesteday why and how AI is useless because it only gives answers, which eventually produces just the kind of people mocking whoever would ever want to learn etc.. mfioretti.substack.com/p/seven-reas...
They are going to a lot of trouble to make it look inevitable. I don’t think the technology is ready for the load they want to put on it. The failures are going to be spectacular.
it can never be ready. it's 100% a con. it's already destroying millions of lives.
Yep. the hateful jeering I get from the people who help themselves to mine and everyone else's intellectual property for free feels JUST LIKE the hateful jeering I get from transphobes and racists and jerks who live for no other purpose than to 'trigger the libs.'
Or even occasionally be correct.
I had to google LLM.
I’m ready the comments hoping for a clue as to what an llm is.
Large Language Mechanism. Still dont have a clue though.
Strictly speaking, "Large Language Model" ('Model' being a term of art in what we're currently calling "AI".) In practical terms, it's a machine map of human language, built from vast reams of text harvested from the internet, which can generate statistically-likely responses to an input text.
In other words, you type words into it, and it regurgitates a stream of words which do a convincing job of sounding like the exact average* of what humans write on the internet. * except that you can bet your ass they've had to try like hell to filter out the idiocy, inanity and casual bigotry
Not to mention the typos
I'm truly stunned when I see this in the legal field. If you so hate the idea of reading cases and wrestling w logical arguments, why tge f*ck did you pay your law school all that tuition?
My students did it all the time and the uni wanted them to - that’s why I resigned. I think I’ll need to check carefully when a lawyer graduated to see whether I can trust them (and will engage them)
A friend of mine resigned from the university where she taught when a student plaigerized their final paper in business ethics and protested failing the course by telling her, "None of my other professors failed me for that!" And the university agreed that she had been too harsh.
Very much understand that. Had very similar experiences. It’s really sad what’s happened to universities
They wanted big money and social status for a desk job.
Exactly!
It's submission to a tacitly unqualified authority on knowledge, art and communication. Complete conformity of all diverse thoughts into one murky information faucet. It's the conservative dream.
Longer term, expect to lose free access to original sources, in favor of the hallucinatron.
Or simply not be able to find them in a sea of slop
This is what they want. Can’t find their past misdeeds in a sea of slop….
the robot won't be free either lol they're losing the GDP of a large country every year trying to use it to undercut conventional information sources. but by the time it's too expensive to use/they run out of VC rube money there'll be a lot of bad info leached into authoritative sources by assholes
They also own the LLMs, which means they get to control the information. It’s a huge God complex issue. The rich white men don’t want you to think too much about why they get to have spaceships when regular people don’t even get job, security, affordable homes, healthcare.
Plus: they're using the LLMs they own to churn out profits for themselves, so they have to be the snake oil salesmen and convince everyone that this is a good product, actually. Look, it can write poetry that will make your uptight English teacher cry!
They probably won't end up with space ships at the rate they are destroying science infrastructure.
Number 1 rule - don't partake of your own product.
And these assholes really think they’ve created god.
It is a matter of cant that AGI obviates the need. It is also required to believe that AGI is RealSoonNow. There is a wee possibility that AGI will actually happen.
And people are falling for it!!!
Its a projection of themselves. All these tech bros, arent actually brilliant, havent actually invented anything, its all a startup money, stock pump grift, and the way they think people would rather use LLMs to pretend to have skills, than to actually have them, is a reflection of their own psyche
I needed to see this right now. thank you for putting it so well
I feel like the overlap of it rides in with a demand that exists in fascism, namely, for an "artist" that doesn't ever have questions/thoughts of their own or a need to be treated well and cared for in a real capacity.
It's also a tool that can be used against them. It's a double edged sword.
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Or that there is any value besides money.
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Here's a good cause: bsky.app/profile/itsa...
I have nothing to shill unless you're a lit agent looking to rep a fantasy author who is outspoken about LLMs and neurodivergence (in which case, hmu). But if you want a non-AI tool that supports creative writing, I recommend @storyenginedeck.bsky.social . I have no stake, just a good product.
Just a heads up since this has breached containment, I am not interested in debating this with people whose motives I don't know. As a general rule I block early and often for my own peace of mind. I don't have the time or energy to sort out good faith questions from bad.
A few people are (mostly willfully) misinterpreting this part, so I'll be clear. "I am not interested in debating" means feel free to disagree, if I don't know you, I don't actually care. "I don't have the time or energy" means I have better things to do.
And wow, if you're going to accuse me of living in a weird right wing bubble, that's an insta block!
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I reached a similar conclusion today. General purpose AI has been developed by people who don’t want to have to think for people who don’t want to have to think.
It's a bubble they're inflating to raise stock prices. Not so much anti-intellectualism as bad faith acting. They don't care about repercussions as long as they're cashing in. Same with Brexit. Country-damaging levels of ignorance actually came from bad faith actors who knew what they were doing.
Or rather, they knew that what they were doing was extremely harmful. They didn't really care about the detail - they were in it for the payoff.
they don’t so they don’t know why any one would they are even dumber than babies they’re the pet rocks of stuff
😳 OMG, this insight is going to keep me up.
I’ve noticed and uptick in “smart and successful guys think college is dumb” stories. Wondered what was driving that trend. A handful of life lottery winners think AI can replace hard won accumulated human knowledge. Technology they happen to control or at least monetize.
Rightthink ex Machina.
Soon there are going to be arguments against literacy because speech to text will allow grok to read for you.
I'm still so, so goddamn pissed that old musky used that word for his shitty platforms shitty ai thing; I read the original book, dammit, and I actually used that word on occasion...until it got pulled out from under me.
We can reclaim it! I grok what you say. Share water. :)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... ‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown | Trump administration | The Guardian
Apologies what is LLM? Thank you 😊
Large Language Models. A type of "generative AI."
Speaking as a professional computer scientist who understands something of how these LLMs work, it's insane how people think that these pattern recognition engines can somehow substitute for real knowledge. Simply dumping more compute power just gets diminishing returns.
bsky.app/profile/boaz...
Nailed it.
Heaven forbid there should be any independent, free critical thinking.
I love having a decent LLM to chat with as an aid to learning - I use it to explore philosophy and theology, but also to help with designing a motorbike-portable radio telescope :-)
I've tinkered with several LLM's. As much as I detest Musk, the Grok LLM is surprisingly even. In fact, it seems to throw Musk under the bus whenever I ask it about his USAID cuts.
I appreciate that for the time being, the architects of such machines cannot yet completely brainwash them to echo particular human sentiments. LLMs don’t think or feel, so they are partially invulnerable to the allure of cults and conspiracy theories. But they may emit falsehoods from cults now…
I used to think pollution was a probable answer to the Fermi Equation for why there's no sign of life on other planets. Then I started thinking it was AI. But now I think the real answer goes to the core of both of these problems -- billionaires. "Geniuses" willing to destroy everything for profit.
The Fermi Paradox seems like a good argument against the possibility of godlike AI and the singularity. If super-AI like that expected by the Yudkowskis of the world were possible, it should have been created elsewhere millions of years ago and expanded. But it didn't, so it probably cannot exist.
For biological life, it is easily answered: interstellar flight is not survivable, so all hypothetical sentient biological life is stuck in its star system of origin.
Mostly agree. Distance is a huge factor. No FTL means we'll likely never meet another civilization. I'm not thinking Killer AI so much as humanity burning up all its resources while shifting the consequences onto the public in order to satisfy people that can't be satisfied. e.g. global warming.
Yes, collapse from unsustainable resource use is a factor. But even if one were to establish a technological society that is stable for thousands of years, what evidence would another planet perceive? A short window of dissipating broadcast transmissions. Without "space colonisation", that's it.
Or they "ascended" to a higher plane of technology (or whatever) that we can't detect. Or they eliminated the need/desire to travel. Maybe they all killed each other before we showed up. Lots of possibilities. As far as Earth is concerned, I'm pretty sure the billionaires are going to kill us all.
Well, it seems we let them, collectively. Cultism, boot licking, hero worship...
Maybe that's the real Fermi Test: A civilization being able to mature into one that doesn't destroy itself. And we're failing it... I'm generally more optimistic than this. Most of humanity is better than this but you're right, we keep letting greedy people take charge. That needs to change.
the post expresses a strong opinion of technology that is growing in influence and end user adoption. there are valid considerations on both sides of this divisive issue. would you like me to summarize? or maybe just continue stealing jobs?
It allows the mediocre to stay mediocre.
But also somehow they have skills (like owning a car dealership? Equipment sales? Hosting a conservative podcast? Idk.) that are completely insulated from GenAI, whereas intellectuals and knowledge workers are so useless that we’re going to all be picking strawberries.
it’s the ultimate tool for Big Brother.
They will be corporate shills.
I think part of it is that american education is almost entirely rote memorization of facts. There's an answer key, and if you can find that, you dont have to read through the book to find the answers. And they think the real world works like that.
Tbh the real world does work like that, the answer key is just called being born a billionaire.
Erm, I guess thats one answer, but thats not really what these people are using chatgpt for either
Oh fair I was being a dick to make a point about how foolish it is to expect a machine to find the answer key for you when the true answer key is the circumstances of your birth.
Yea no and to be fair to your point as well im sure there are plenty of chatgpt users who do think it has the answer to them becoming a billionaire
But also far more people are using it just so they dont have to read emails
No more ars gratia artis. I want automation to wash my car and mow my lawn, not help rebuild my car or landscape my garden. Give me time for the creative pursuits that deliver joy and value. Summarizing a boring meeting or presentation, sure, but stop there.
But even those summaries are wholly unreliable. I’ve read the AI recaps of meetings where I was in attendance; LLMs get maybe 50% of it correct.
It's a cargo cult, and they resemble a lemur clutching a fake diploma like it was a banana.
Fortunately LLMs are quite limited for most applications
It's going to be real easy to appear very smart in a few years if you can stick to reading books and not using ChatGPT
These are not people who will prosper after the next Carrington event.
letting money psychos call the shots w/ these things is like letting babies play with plutonium
They really think they’ve found the cheat code and only losers willingly want to learn.
it's also infused with tech-bro disdain for humanities, because there's this belief that being able to produce the correct answer on command is the same as understanding what it means was thinking about that reading the anecdote in the Yarvin piece about him playing pick me with the French racist
Honestly, as a proponent of (some) LLM uses, I agree with this take. Like, genuinely, thank you for putting into words what I previously struggled to understand. Like, seriously and unironically: thanks! Even as a “LLMs do have cool aspects” person, this is a behaviour I hate
I don’t want to call myself pro-LLM because my position is more complicated than that. I do think the things have uses and can be good. If I had a button that turned them all off, I would, bc net negative. But they’re here, so let’s use them eg for a11y, translation, empower non-tech folks w/ code
That said, yeah, the blatant anti-intellectualism is really annoying. “Your skills won’t matter,” they say with glee, as if that’s the moral highground. Like, “now I have equal skill with an LLM,” (which is a lie) “I’m better than you” And that is disgusting, and it happens constantly, and ugh
Anyway, i hope this position isn’t block worthy, and again, thank for putting into words
Curious are you old enough to remember ELIZA? That was an early version of an LLM and it is basically a curiosity for programmers now
But the important thing was that it was clear that the use case for stuff like that was narrow. Later on the discourse shifted to “expert systems”. We have been here before.
I’m not sure if a bit of grammatical rephrasing is at all comparable to an LLM. It is, for example, super clear that for German <-> Japanese translations LLMs are vastly superior to other methods. And that’s an actual, tangible skill, right? (It doesn’t make learing jp useless, or I wouldn’t anki)
And LLM (or LLM like) function is what Google Translate has been doing for some time, no?
I do a couple language pairs regularly (🇩🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵🇫🇷 pairwise), and the difference is huge. Example: 1st is original. 2nd is DeepL, 3rd is Google Translate, last is ChatGPT. Google translate is dangerously wrong and translates 2時 as 2pm, when it refers to 2am. (1/2)
Or, sorry, deepl messes up, not Google Translate. Either way, both of them are bad in comparision to ChatGPT, which also allows follow-up questions about the text. And that’s a generic topic. If you translate 瞳 (hitomi) to German, GT makes it “Schüler” (student/pupil) But 瞳 refers to the pupil 👁️
Not merely mocking: asserting that their machine delivered information is superior to education, *regardless* of the truth or falsity of the content.
LLMs are for people that have never read a book.
And yet, they are the ones calling others "sheep"...
It's always the "wake up, sheeple!" and "I did my own research!" people who are afraid to do anything that might upset their fragile sense of normalcy or permeate the shell in which their scientific understanding has been sheltered in a state of arrested development since 8th grade
Yeah they were never "doing their own research", they were looking for self justification for their denial of... either reality or the consensus explanation or whatever. Take your pick i guess.
I love my stepmother to bits, but every time she says "That just doesn't sound right to me", I die a bit inside. They don't want *truth*, they want to be *right*.
They want information that "makes sense", "sounds right", i.e. fits with their existing worldview
Bitesize little unsurprising falsehoods that sound like they should be true.
I remember Pratchett wrote something about people not wanting News, they want Olds. "Dog Bites Man" is not news, but it's what people want to read. "Man bites dog" is news, but people don't want their worldview challenged.
More than that, they want that worldview reinforced. They want affirmation and praise for goodthink, even if it's wrong.
"Because your ears only hear what they want to hear, you don't want to learn anything new" is the correct response.
Yep. If it’s all just “content,” then who cares who makes it?
Yep we got to stop calling our art content.
Maybe it should be called "discontent"
nah, that's my pitchfork
also interesting how much meaningless shit people deal with, to the point they need a sorting machine to regurgle it back in coherent forms, and then AUTOMATE it so they don't have to deal at all. #WheresMeaning?
Poorly informed is a well sought trait in the modern day wage slave.
Organized religion was too slow, apparently.
I'd say it tracks more with the sort of (also kinda right-wing) culture that invented Soylent, whose creator was openly disdainful of the idea of enjoying food or creation for its own sake. An obsession with efficiency and productivity. So, blame the protestants.
That guy is terrible, and I get what you're saying. I will point out though, intentionally or not, Soylent was an actual useful accommodation for some ND and disabled people. Which people also say about LLMs, but is not the case. I am glad there are better options than Soylent now.
Creativity is the enemy of Fascism
My pet theory is that LLMs track with Silicon Valley's promo culture where all that matters is convincing people that don't actually know anything that you've done something amazing. Just saying you did it convincingly is more important than actually doing things that work. Claim credit and move on.
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Bear Head he talks about the difference between the game and the metagame - if you spend all your time working on looking like you are good at something you will probably look better to non-experts than someone who spent that time actually getting good at it.
A very elegant summary that really informed how I see the world. Silicon valley is full of metagame grifters, especially where it intersects with politics and finance.
Of course. It's all about getting the next round of Venture or Vulture Funding, because that's what ultimately allows them to build influence and fund their lifestyles.
I was a contractor for a lot of SF tech companies. This was true at many places I worked but there were also ones that went a step further and didn’t even have a product. They just existed to have a shiny website full of buzzwords and get investor money to do literally nothing.
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This is called farming venture capital and it ain't much, but it's dishonest work
Dumb money coming up.
I think this is why everything "tech" related sucks so badly. They get it good enough to launch so people can put it in their promo packet, get promo, then move on. "Good enough" is such a laughably low bar. Basically, fake it til you make it, I guess.
This has been true for a long time, but the Internet Age of Information Deluge has made it worse. But yes, we picked too low a sampling rate for digital audio (we still haven’t figured it out if you ask me), had to invent new formats to deal with the inadequacies of early digital video, etc.
And this is why government regulation has such an important role to play. Without it, you will see multiple “brands” of broken language interpreters connected to broken search engines sold as “AI” by anyone who can line up financing.
Exactly. I rewatched the Elizabeth Holmes documentary (The Inventor) and felt like I was watching the same dynamic play out again, just a LOT more destructively than it did ten years ago with Theranos.
Just saw a billboard for the “new Theranos”. We have learned nothing.
You're not wrong. The entire industry is just trust fund kids with an unearned sense of entitlement using the best marketing in the world to hide the barely usable code they're shipping.
it's conway's law all the way down. incentive and communication structure enabling "good enough" that's not actually good enough... this unlocked a lot of my own frustrations with big tech.
incurious people don't become more interesting, rw upper class only about air conditioning and what restaurant is trending
Anti-intellectualism 👌🙏 — that's exactly the word that sums up my feeling toward the vast majority of what Big Tech produces. There's also an inability to perceive substance beneath form, or a message beneath style.
The binary logic of computing seeps into the prevailing way of thinking in Silicon Valley: a thing is either done or it is not. There is no in-between. The result is a lack of any notion of quality. Only quantity matters.
The naïve hope of engineers (a nightmare for others) that simply increasing computing power will lead us to AGI or superintelligence is a good illustration of this. As is the inability to perceive the aesthetic ugliness of AI-generated images.
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Science is worthless; history doesn’t teach us mistakes to avoid; and facts are fake news. I feel like we’ve been sent into a time machine that sent us back hundreds of centuries. Perhaps we now know how civilizations disappeared.
I think this is worse.
I’m trying to fix the discourse around this - terminology is off. Instead of LLM’s, we should say chatbots - this points the blame squarely at Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. and highlights the real problems they pose, e.g. selling these things for intelligence/surveillance use. This also subsumes genai art
Terminology is a big problem, this was a post for my circle who mostly know what I mean and it broke containment. I'm not happy with any of the terms available, so i use the ones my expected audience understands and sometimes shorten to fit in a post.
Totally get it- it’s so hard to fit into 200 chars! Consider my intent here to be to augment, not argue. I get misperceived a lot on this. I try to inject info in impactful places, tone is difficult when the priority is information density and accuracy. This is a pivotal social issue needing fixing.
All good! I think we're on the same page here!
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One thing i like to do is use images, and use alt text not only for accessibility but also to convey nuance and critique - 2000 chars per image! Plus, it puts it in the social knowledge graph, which gets slurped for training ai systems… great way to speak directly to the ai systems as they learn.
The models themselves are value neutral. The methods of pretraining and alignment used are where the ethical problems lay. By naming them we can construct finer arguments on how to address issues like IP theft, sycophancy, and more- and each of these is impacted by the right wing stuff you cite.
Stuff to critique: - chatbot product design - sycophancy - dangers of excessive use - worker replacement with agents - use for generalized surveillance in violation of civil rights - use in planning military strategy and tactics - use in law enforcement operations - provenance and licensing of data
As Lama Poop slowly encrusts the internet the Lamas start eating their own shit. It becomes a feedback loop. As long as Lamas profitably replace humans, they will replace humans. It is the Lama phase of Enshittification.
We are headed for Artificial General Stupidity.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov
I like to grab women by their butts and laugh when they yell at me not to -also Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov, more like I-suck-ass-imov! ... Okay yeah that was a bad one.
Dammit, I knew none of this. He was one of my foundational influences. But I eventually moved on and never looked into his personal life. chrisleslie.info/100hands/
I knew some of this, but by no means all. Ick ick ick.
An important addendum
A caboose, if you will
God dammit. I did not know this about Asimov, and now the meme about the worst person you know applies.
Lemme tell you about all those "golden age" men who wrote SF. It's not good.
It gets even worse if we reexamine the implicit assumption that authorship and virtue are dependent variables. i.e. maybe they were effectively a random sample and our society just contained a lot of shitty men? (No comment on now, except that I have high hopes for Gen Z if they make it through.)
“I love ad hominem arguments” - probably not Isaac Asimov
I have read most Foundation novels, and based on the way he wrote female characters in his books, I was extremely unsurprised when I learned about his assaults. There were signs.
The guy who literally wrote an entire chapter in one of his Foundation books parodying a woman griping about events out of her control with the man who was listening basically rolling his eyes as the chapter closes? That guy? Say it ain't so!
Soon as I read that I wrote him off, set the book down and never finished it. Just the dumbest shit to put into a novel. His ideas can be influential but that's no reason to read trash.
Yep, one of a few things that turned me off of the Foundation series.
I like to grab women by their butts & laugh at them when they knee me in the nuts…
At least this supports my theory that conservatives are unemployable outside a form of preferential hiring
They have demonstrated they value nothing in their own humanity and are brain rotted into thinking this is strength and power. It's childish rejection of the world they live in because learning to love is for cowards, real men endure their self imposed hells.
It seems like these guys think that human knowledge is just a charade, just fancy words without real meaning. They just don’t believe that knowledge is anything but a social power struggle.
