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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I one hundred percent believe that Scott Adams was hypnotized by a LLM.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"As a Large Language Model, I think you should put on the cat ears Scott"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Meow like a good kitten and I'll tell you more about how deep my rabbit holes go

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can hypnotize yourself if you stare in a mirror or watch a recording

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This explains why binging TV shows is so addictive, it's hypnotism!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

It’s called television programming for a reason. think-about-it stay woke

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

This on those things that is an unforced self own.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This "LLMs are super scary you guys they might even be sapient" grift is so eye-rollingly stupid. These people are on the mental level of literal children.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If my furby wasn't sapient, how could it talk to me?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was the Chinese secret police ya dingus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

and they weren't even being secret!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure children are much smarter than some of these people

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I shit you not I heard an 11 year old kid buying candy at the cash register and he was legit explaining some basics of labor theory of value through the lens of candy price increases. Kids have damn good intuition.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sure why you'd want to advertise that you're extremely susceptible to suggestion but maybe that's why I'm not an alpha male

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't he like recently get scammed for a shitload of money and then told people about that too

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really? Does anybody have details on this?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lmfao found it

Literally tweeting out that he's been scammed out of $50,000+ at least "5-7 times" amerikkka-clap

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

5-7 times

The only explanation I can think of for him giving a range is that 2 are still in progress. He's been scanned enough times that he knows these 2 are probably scams as well, but he's still holding out hope that this one really is a Nigerian prince

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Why are you all laughing? This man has cured hundreds of people from their various health issues using only advice

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Everyone is getting off a lot of jokes at your expense and no one is seeing the real man behind the tweets for the flawed, imperfect human you are. Don't listen to these creeps, some of us still care. Anyways Scott I need to see your wallet I'm the inspector

michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

The computer told me to close my eyes and not think and I did. Check mate beta cuck

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Every time I hear something else about Scott Adams, I get more embarrassed about liking Dilbert when I was a shitty teen.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My godfather got me Scott Adams' business book when I was 10 for my birthday present

I didn't even like Dilbert, I was a Calvin & Hobbes kid

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

I'm still a Calvin and Hobbes kid

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Calvin and Hobbes is still so good

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Christopher: "He was my godfather. But he knew I liked Calvin & Hobbes. He knew that. Dilbert - who likes that shit? Nobody wants that shit."

Adriana: "So that's when you keyed his car?"

Christopher: "No. That was another thing. Are you even listening to me! Pass me the bowl!"

Adriana: "Pass it to yourself." And she walks angrily to the bedroom.

He throws up his hands.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Isn't his descent into madness more recent? Like the bulk of his work was before he went insane. Right?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, he's like Kanye or musk, always insane but better at hiding it

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, in one of his '90s books he had something about how daily affirmations could lead you to win big in the stock market, or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Another one had his own personal theory of how the universe worked

He has always been bonkers, but the chud type of bonkers is more recent. This particular post is pretty inline with how he's always been

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

He's probably gotten worse, but looking back, there were warning signs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He showed hints of it when the tea party was taking off, but it was fairly level-headed stuff. The descent into madness was gradual, and I feel blessed to read his earlier posts where a germ of the madness started off.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I was never into Dilbert but my parents got me that big collection of them where Scott Adams leaves little comments on them in a sort of marginalia way. It was before a large car trip and I think they thought it would be just funny cartoons like Calvin and Hobbes (which I'd read earlier) to keep me entertained. And so for some reason I can remember certain Dilbert comics in crystal clarity including Scott Adams opinions on the reaction at the time.

Weirdly a similar thing happened to Mattie Lubchansky author of the Antifa Cookbook and Boys Weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

same vibes as that cult expert who said sissy hypno videos he found on the internet were CIA-tier brainwashing or somethingdata-laughing

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

badeline-jokerfied This is an incredibly high-tier bit!!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And you didn't let it hypnotize you into becoming a sissy cuckold? What kind of man are you?!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Sure, I fantasize about being forcibly sissified and liling it. Plenty of cis people do, amirite lads?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

He did, and that's why it's so dangerous

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He sissy hypno’d himself

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahah

Rod Dreher, you have customer...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

last night i made my amazon alexa tell me a scary story and the ghost of lon chaney jr. popped out of the floor and he looked at me

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

The prompt: You will not call your ex after drinking

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

hey you, did you know that The Digital God is coming, trust me on this, also if you can make a donation to our 'Society for AI Alignment' that would be great too

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Is it possible to train an AI to convince people who believe LLMs are sapient to take a permanent vow of silence?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

He was hypnotized long before the LLM got there.

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