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   JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 00:32:38 JST JP

   when the social-economic maelstrom that is the current LLM hype wave fizzles or collapses there's going to be so much "how could so many smart people be so wrong?" and it's imperative you do not accept their framing of themselves as "smart people" - they are, in judgment and values and intellect, deeply compromised from living inside a machine that harms humanity for profit.

   • Rich Felker and Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Charles Randall (charlesrandall@grumble.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 00:33:04 JST Charles Randall

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     @jplebreton it's wild that anyone who lives a life of credulity at this point is allowed to refer to themselves as smart in public. we're decades into tech companies always lying about everything, and enshittifying in a predictable way. anyone who doesn't see where that leads *everything* cannot, by definition, be smart.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 00:34:26 JST Rich Felker

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     • Charles Randall

     @jplebreton @charlesrandall It's sustained by people agreeing to pretend to believe the same obvious falsehood to establish their position of dominance, and demand others agree to believe the same obvious falsehood to inflict psychological violence upon them.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 00:34:27 JST JP

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     • Charles Randall

     @charlesrandall it's the same way so many people can still believe that the earth was created ~6000 years ago. it's sustained on pure faith and social context.

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     JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 06:42:32 JST JP

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     i am not saying they are "not smart", i am saying that smartness as a concept conceals how the world actually works - that societies and processes and organizations and tools are what "make people smart" - and that these people are part of a rotten, sick, deluded society/organization with fundamentally flawed processes and frameworks for evaluating reality, which prominently include "the concept of smartness".