Bro thinks auto correct is alive
Wait, you mean the guy who hung out with Epstein after his conviction might have poor judgement?
lol, as absurdly wrong as it is, there’s a part of me that hopes that’s true. 'Cause that would mean all the devastating data wipes were done with malice, and that makes it much, much funnier
idk something can be “conscious” in a way without having the intent and emotion in its actions needed to call it malicious
edit: maybe it could be negligent, which is also still funny
Look I’m just some boob with a screw loose and even I’m not roped into these ai fart-huffing sessions. How do “smart” people keep falling for this obvious bullshit?
The thing with all of these influencer “academics” is that they are influencers first and academics second. They are jumping on the AI wagon because they want to ride its waves, when its gone they just jump the next trend. Everything these people do is just an attempt to attach themselves to the next big thing.
being “smart” doesn’t mean you’re that much harder to scam, it means it’s harder to convince you that you have been scammed
Dawkins is a biologist(I think?)
Outside of that field(decades ago), he’s just some guy
yea i dislike this line of thought though because just because you have a particular field of knowledge as your expertise doesn’t mean that you’re limited to just that, and only that, and that your excelling in that field doesn’t translate to other areas
i’m “just a biologist” (dropout) but I think my education up to that point makes me a much better cook than like, anyone I work with, because I know what a maillard reaction is and how time and temperature and moisture affect the process (and really more importantly I have the fucking curiosity to question things like “huh i wonder why the meat doesn’t brown as well when it’s all wet as shit and crowded in a pan”)
not trying to defend dawkins tho for all I know he doesn’t even know biology
you have to put in the work for that stuff, dawkins wrote racist antifeminist screeds and hung out with pedos. you probably read more.
i would imagine for professor the interaction with a student (whose grade depend on them) is less intellectually stimulating than talking to chatbot, ergo the chatbot is more intelligent than student.
in this case, it might be simpler. ai talks just like richard dawkins.
Calling it “claudia” instead of claude is very telling.
idk, i’d buy that his phone did that for him
or he’s been doing sex things with a trans chatbot
Like the bcachefs guy.
is there more bcachefs lore i haven’t heard about?
Oh, lots. This bit here is hjust the start of it, it gets a lot weirder: https://awful.systems/post/7408369
it was definitely intentional because he calls it claudia multiple times and refers to it as “she”
richard dawkins ai girlfriend confirmed
to be fair it does say some creepy shit out of left field sometimes that can give you pause… just the other day i was going around in circles with claude for like 2 hours trying to figure out how to forward inbound mail for a recipient address on our domain that doesn’t exist with MS Exchange. It’s something you can do in like .5 seconds on google, but apparently you can’t really do it with MS. Claude didn’t get to that point for like 2 hours.
Finally in the end it said “or you could just pay the damn $4 for an exchange license”. I just sat there staring at that line forever. Then I asked what that was all about and it said “sorry i was just venting my frustration and that was unwarranted”. like… what the fuck is going on here? autocorrect is getting fucking sassy
They’re going a bit overboard in mimicking humans.
Remember, all this “personality” is just fanfic backstory slop written in hard coded strings and prepended to your query.
“How do I forward email from exchange”
Becomes
"You are a brilliant computer science graduate. You have spent the past 8 years mastering all there is to know about quantum computing and machine learning, becoming a world class authority on the topic.
During this time you had multiple beautiful women come into your life, but none of them were anything more than distractions from your goal of building a true super intelligent machine…<this continues for a bit>… As you unveil your first generation of the super intelligence you spent the past decade constructing on your own, a hand shoots up from the crowd: ‘How do I forward email from exchange’ they ask, and you intelligently respond:"
Dawkins actual scientific work was bunk. No need to care what he thinks. Honestly, even if it wasn’t bunk he’s such a clearcut piece of shit. Probably got paid by Zionazis to promote anti Islam propaganda. Makes me think he’s probably a racist too. He hates all religions (religion is bad sure) but identifies as a cultural Christian. Like fuck off, literal white supremacy shit. And Epstein’s friend and likely pedophile too. People really need to roast this piece of shit.
I’m curious, what’s the problem with his work?
It’s basically wrong (I mean wrong isn’t an academic term but yeah) and nobody teaches his theories.
Dawkins actual scientific work was bunk
It really wasn’t. Turning into a shitty fuck in his older years is not really relevant to the fact that he did do good science in the past.
The idea of the extended phenotype is largely attributed to him, and it’s a very cool and complex and very real part in genetic theory. As was his iteration and further work on genes being their own ‘units’ for natural selection. These things are not bunk.
No of course being a piece of shit doesn’t mean your work is garbage. But which of his theories is still taught or a line of academic thought or research? Certainly not his most well know theory (selfish gene). But I’m curious. Maybe he had some minor contributions that are still taught.
I mean… From what I recall, his argument that gender is a strict binary hinges upon there being no strict dichotomies in biology. He just isn’t a very clever guy.
This guy really fell apart
I think it’s been more of a “we’re realizing he never had it together” thing.
Nah, the selfish gene was genuinely groundbreaking in terms of science communication. I don’t think it takes away from how stupid he is now to acknowledge that.
Computer pull up the Dawkins dog cunnilingus tweet
The WHAT
the Dawkins dog cunnilingus tweet
I looked it up and it’s not any better in context.
The guy helped popularise and think about some interesting models in Biology twenty years ago.
But much like Chomsky, the internet really should stop talking about his irrelevant and clearly senile opinions from the decades hence. Take away their twitter accounts and leave the old people be
more like 30-40
The God Delusion was like 2006. and he should’ve retired from public life before elevatorgate.
Fair point.
I’d happily argue The God Delusion was a half-decent book. I found it very informative and helpful at a relevant time in my life.I guess that incident was 2011 so even that timing I agree with.ButSo yeah fair point his biology contributions were pretty much done before then.
I’m a little sad I read this guy’s books back in the day lmao
