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  • ZDL@lazysoci.altoFuck AI@lemmy.worldThanks, I hate it
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    39 minutes ago

    You mean like raising your children in a Nazi environment prepares you by teaching you the dangers, advantages, and disadvantages of Nazism? (Protip: Children brought up by Nazis tend to become Nazis.)

    Or maybe children brought up as Christians are prepared by seeing the dangers, advantages, and disadvantages of belief in the Sky Daddy? (Protip: People brought up in religious households tend to be of that religion.)

















  • Read.

    The.

    Thread.

    You claimed to have read the evidence.

    Read it.

    Closely.

    A very large proportion of respondents took it straight. Apparently it was not funny to a lot of people.

    So if a large number of people didn’t “get” your joke (presuming the joke isn’t something deeply technical like half the jokes, say, of XKCD), your joke just sucked. Or it wasn’t a joke until people reacted badly. One of the two.


  • Or option three, which happened here: someone attempted satire or dark humor and didn’t realize society had degenerated so much that people were genuinely, seriously, advocating for the satirical claim.

    Oh? This was his first time on Twitter then? If so, the error is forgivable.

    No, wait. It isn’t. Reader’s Digest has been doing “condensed books” in its magazines since the 1930s. People have been pitching things like Coles Notes since 1948 and Cliffs Notes since 1958. And even in the world of tech there’s been Blinkist since 2013.

    So expressing surprise to negative reactions to opining that LLMbeciles are “good” for summarizing complex novels given – checks notes – almost a century of people gleefully doing just that is either ignorance of staggering proportions or disingenuousness of even more staggering proportions.

    This was pretty much a Schrodinger’s Joke.