originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn’t like links to Yarvin’s substack
archive: https://archive.is/olhGc
dead dove, approach with care before eating
Mostly I’m just upset that he brings up knob-and-tube wiring and then moves on without ever actually explaining what the fuck he’s taking about. Congratulations on living in an old house that hasn’t been completely rewired up to modern code I guess? What does that have to do with literally anything that follows? Going off on a long tangent about the history of domestic wiring sounds way more interesting than this dreck.
Didn’t really think about it until just now, but a load-bearing part of Yarvin’s work seeming erudite is him dropping in little bits of obscure trivia that may or may not have anything to do with the topic at hand
@istewart @sneerclub Hey, I do that too! In fiction. Adds that crunchy texture that makes readers think it’s profound.
Like the bottle opener on a Galil, or the “Flower Field” version of Minesweeper, it can also help distinguish your story in small, but interesting ways, and help it stick in a reader’s mind. (Had to try this trick for myself :P)
oh gosh our boy is just so proud that he got the echo-chambering machine specifically engineered to chamber echoes to echo his words.
what kinds of jailbreak is he going to invent next, maybe a way to make LLMs suck up to everything you say? perhaps even a sophisticated hacker glitch to make LLMs say things that are statistically likely to follow the preceding input
“I have a newborn baby and a startup and time is tight.” Proceeds to write 10,000 words about typing into the void.
dead dove
Truer words, dawg. Amongst everything else, what the fuck is up with the subtitle.
In 50 years some history pervert’s gonna dig this up and have a very weird day.
Unless he starts engraving copper plates none of this shit will keep that long.
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sorry to hear that! Since you couldn’t be bothered to read the side bar for what the sub’s about, I’ll just enhance your Lemmy experience.
