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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023

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Is that your substack, or did you just find the article interesting? Are you going to respond to any counter arguments if someone addresses any part of this post?

Did anyone archive the post or the link?

Edit: Was it this one?

No, it was this one: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-browning-of-the-right

The post was just a copy-paste of the article.

You're probably replying to GPT-generated bullshit.

This is what I hate about AI. I don't think we're going to be paperclipped and I don't think we're going to live in post-scarcity riches and luxury. But every second comment now on social media is "Did AI write this?" or "Sounds like AI wrote it" or even "I bet AI wrote this, it's so good!" and "I wish AI would write movie script/comic book/commentary piece".

Were there no humans churning out stupid crap before ChatGPT? Was nobody producing reasonably creative work? If we're no longer going to believe that we are interacting with other humans on the basis "this comment is so terrible it must be AI", then what is the point?

Were there no humans churning out stupid crap before ChatGPT? Was nobody producing reasonably creative work?

It'll be a sad when it turns out that modern human beings won't even be able to pass the Turing test. But my expectations have never been lower.

Virtually every technology out there is always sold on the idea that, it'll be great for humanity on the basis of X, Y and Z; but it's always only ever been marketing garbage. All the 'virtues' and 'wonders' and highfalutin bullshit of these technologies always only ever end up being a footnote and and afterthought to their 'real' uses. Plagiarism, social isolation, degradation of community, and mindless consumerism, to name a few.

Idk, I'm quite fond of refrigerators and dishwashers myself.

It is the new “must be a Russian bot”

shit-stirs in replies, but doesn't address any replies to the shit-stirring. And has a month-old private account. That's always a good sign.

It's the same guy who's been banned numerous times. He posts bait and far right inside baseball while pretending to oppose it.

Here's the last time, which coincidentally is close to the birthday of this present iteration.

I quite like this guy’s posts, I have to say. If they’re bait, they’re good bait that actually refers to a lot of interesting things happening in online dissident right politics, which is a very interesting topic of discussion.

Yeah, we could go back to the previous state of affairs, which was an ever declining number of posts about “my office just implemented a new DEI policy, I’m going to post about how angry it makes me on my favorite forum”, the usual suspects complaining about juice, news articles with the minimal acceptable amount of commentary, or the occasional effortpost about something interesting but only tangentially related to the culture war, but this is an interesting addition.

Seconded. I thought this was a good discussion starter.

Ah... Glad we're still extending endless charity to obvious trolls so that we can slam regulars with the banhammer.

You disagreed with Count’s ban?

Yeah, getting banned for saying "who gives a shit" seems excessive. He wasn't actually aggressive to the other poster.

Edit: wait he was banned for a week?! I thought it was for a day, that is outrageous and I'm not criticising someone who can't respond.

It's good for the soul.

Thus has it ever been ;-)