• originalfrozenbanana
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    6 months ago

    Imagine telling Yann LeCun what is and isn’t right when it comes to science

    • refalo@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      honestly LeCun should know better than to argue with a crazy person.

      it doesn’t matter how right he is, musk will turn everything around and have fun while doing it.

      • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Yep. All he’s achieving is by this is helping Twitter keep some of its legitimacy.

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          6 months ago

          This particular moron is selling tickets to the venue he’s using to argue with him tho…

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          6 months ago

          I’m not convinced that has the effect you think it does.

          To me it just makes LeCun look worse for engaging with him. His research stands on its own and I don’t think convincing anyone of anything on xitter is going to have a worthwhile outcome for him.

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      6 months ago

      thanks to melon tusk, i don’t have to

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      6 months ago

      The Musk likely knows who and what he himself is, even if only in the darkest and most sleepless hours of the night, but on the other hand, his followers eat this shit up like candy. “Survival of the fittest” - caveat: in the current climate, or rather the one from the last few decades - has led to him being put in charge of way more than he should, in the same manner that a cockroach is “fitter” than humans since they will outlast our having caused WWIII (unless we make it to space, which seems increasingly unlikely at this point, at least within any of our current lifetimes).

      Anyway, it is important to remember that he does not do this for reason of mere stupidity - he literally gets paid to dish out this kind of shade.

      Edit: case in point, the fact that we are discussing this now, and also the title of this post. If Elon had said “I respect you”, that would have been the end of the matter right there, but it would not have met his goals (or apparently, ours either).