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"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
(deadsimpletech.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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It's takes like this that just discredit the rest of the text.
You can dislike LLM AI for its environmental impact or questionable interpretation of fair use when it comes to intellectual property. But pretending it's actually useless just makes someone seem like they aren't dissimilar to a Drama YouTuber jumping in on whatever the latest on-trend thing to hate is.
actually you know what? with all the motte and baileying, you can take a month off. bye!
Petition to replace "motte and bailey" per the Batman clause with "lying like a dipshit".
Isn't this a case of 'the good bits are not original and the original bits are not good'. According to wikipedia it is from 2005.
various forms of equivocation
I don't see what useful information the motte and bailey lingo actually conveys that equivocation and deception and bait-and-switch didn't. And I distrust any turn of phrase popularized in the LessWrong-o-sphere. If they like it, what bad mental habits does it appeal to?
The original coiner appears to be in with the brain-freezing crowd. He's written about the game theory of "braving the woke mob" for a Tory rag.