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They just miss the point, don't they? (lemmynsfw.com)

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This is why the aitechbrodude will never understand opposition to AI. They don't understand anything of substance.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but you see, now they can "read" the outline, and end up with just enough memory of it to reference the work in a condescendingly authoritative opinion about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sort of looking forward to a techbro trying to condescendingly tell me that Crime and Punishment is about a man who goes to prison or The Stranger is about a guy who randomly kills another guy or One Hundred Years of Solitude is about a Mexican family.or Moby Dick is about a whale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I was trying to look up a quote I thought was from parody CEO Hand Scorpio from the Simpsons, but it's from Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec.

"Metaphors? I hate metaphors! That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick; no froo froo symbolism, just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal".

Either way, it's a great parody of artistic illiteracy of business bros, even without the A.I summary, they would have said the same shit. Most the time they're reading non-fiction guru-self-help with a bro friendly veneer anyway.

As an entirely different tangent, I'm someone who is qualified in the arts and pretty bad at the sciences, but I'm always amazed how naturally people in the sciences pick up the art. I'm talking mathematicians and electrical engineers. I have no idea if it's that they know how to learn from a background where it's necessary, or if their brains have just developed connections in a transferable place. Maybe it's even just a coincidence and just random correlation I've seen. Either way, I'd worry art was deceptively easy if not for the fact that armchair pseudo-intellectual business bros are absolutely awful at making and understanding it.