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Years ago, somebody online described a legally ignorant post I’d made about a matter of law as a fractal of wrongness: the whole conclusion was wrong, but also every part of it was wrong. The wrongness had more wrongness inside it.

They were correct. When I read their post, I realized I'd been talking out of my ass.

But man oh man, even at my most ignorant and arrogant, I’ve got nothing on this Andreessen guy. Pheweeee.

via @jardo: ruby.social/@jardo/11389827557

Ruby.socialJared Norman (@jardo@ruby.social)Attached: 1 image Imagine believing this.
Paul Cantrell

Sitting here trying to make a satire transposing Andreesen’s dumbassery into a nontechnica realm, and this is the best I’ve managed:

“A world in which trees are all destroyed by squirrels, who then themselves die out — logically, necessarily — is a world in which nut production goes through the roof, absent the squirrels to eat them. Because zero divided by zero is infinity, we will then live in an infinite forest, beyond all imagining.”

Last thought, and then I swear I'll kick this numnut out of my head and get back to the better things I was doing:

Somebody here made the astute observation that people keep following this pattern where they try an LLM and decide that it’s terrible for their •own• area of expertise, but is amazing for something they’re completely ignorant about.

This may help explain why all these tech olibros think AI is amazing at absolutely everything.

@inthehands whenever I see someone post that guys posts I can only think about jwz’s anecdotes about him leaving the Netscape bathrooms uninhabitable every time he used them, and how thats what my timeline feels like after seeing his posts

@joe
That is spot on. And sorry to have once again brought him to your TL.

@joe @inthehands it took me three reads to realize that you weren’t talking about @jwz blowing up the shitter

@inthehands Yes, the tech world has a massive Dunning-Kruger effect.

@inthehands incidentally, the same thing has been going on with mass media for a very long time...

@inthehands It’s basically the same as the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

“…the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-M

en.m.wikipedia.orgGell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia

@inthehands @xgranade when all you know is 'shout at the talented people until things happen' you're very willing to accept 'i barely have to shout at *all* at this thing' as a global win, regardless of actual outcomes.

@inthehands This is a common bamboozle for real people too. The physicist will say “oh he doesn’t know what he’s talking about but his philosophy sounds sharp” and the philosopher will say the same thing in reverse. I’ve seen this a dozen times. The problem is that neither repudiates the shyster because thrr Ed y don’t feel qualified.

@ThreeSigma

@inthehands

I forget where I read this, but the historians said about Velikofsky that his history is dead wrong but his astronomy sounds interesting and meanwhile the astronomers said his astronomy is crap but he sure knows his history

@chargrille

[flamboyant boy]

EDIT: ha, that was supposed to be [flamboyant bow], but I'm leaving it

@inthehands A Thneed’s a Fine Something that ALL people need.

@mwyman
That book is a frigging masterpiece, and the longer I watch the world, the more it impresses me.

@inthehands

It's incoherent enough that I wonder if he had an LLM write it.