slopjockey

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[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That Floyd tweet was fantastically dim-witted, so much more so than I expected from the headline. This unaltered video of a man's death is a deepfake not because it was doctored, nor because it's misleading, but because it gave progressive beliefs I don't like. And all that was sandwiched between an AI plug. His point was that AI would somehow shit all over the libs and he doesn't explain how, not even a little bit.

How do these weird ass neolib AI freakazoids keep getting cited in mainstream sites?

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

A good portion of online rw politics is just a desparate cry for pussy blanketed with callous dogma.

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He does have a point though. The TTS does sound pretty different from "Her".

...but it also sounds a shit ton like Johansson in general. Which would make sense if it was trained on a corpus of her speaking rather than just clips from the one movie.

I mean come on, it sounds like chatGPT's about to tell me that the sun's getting real low.

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 19 points 7 months ago

Begging the question is a fallacy in which the premise of an argument presupposes the truth of its conclusion; in other words, the argument takes for granted what it's supposed to prove.

In Critical Thinking (2008), William Hughes and Jonathan Lavery offer this example of question-begging: "Morality is very important, because without it people would not behave according to moral principles."

Used in this sense, the word beg means "to avoid," not "ask" or "lead to." Begging the question is also known as a circular argument, tautology, and petitio principii (Latin for "seeking the beginning").

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-begging-the-question-fallacy-1689167

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that a recent change? I feel like I've seen a fair number of dead links on Wikipedia, mainly on older unpopular articles

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

Here's another good one: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12qbsfo/tpo_has_joined_twitter_been_tweeted_by_paul/

paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims

My favorite tp0 moment was when someone pointed out the identical twins in an adoption study he cited were barely separated, and tp0 blocked him and left the original chart using data from the study up.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12qbsfo/tpo_has_joined_twitter_been_tweeted_by_paul/jgr8sxv/

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

My man spent 10 paragraphs failing to describe the intended vibe of the event he's organizing. This is what happens when you only read tweets and substacks, you completely lose the ability to describe the immaterial.

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

Wtf? It's like they made a sex offenders list, just nothing but libertarians and racists

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm a bit surprised to see his name. I read "Seeing like a bank" and snippets of a few other blogposts, he didn't come off as a ghoul

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Also what the fuck?

In your mind, is a racist who "possesses strong animus towards non-whites" a special category of person with which we should not engage in any kind of discussion? Or if we should not be casual towards them, how should we act? Why?

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