Dude, in case my breakdown of your argumentation style didn’t make it clear: piss off. You’re a dishonest grifter with no opinion anybody should be paying attention to. Your parents should be ashamed of their accidental conception of you. AND you’re stupid enough to push AI bullshit in a group literally called “Fuck AI”.

Go away. Your mother is calling you.

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Oops. She just called you something else.

I’m the only person I ever met who does it, so … it’s probably not common?

I grilled 'em on the stove.

Otherwise the same thing.

Preach it, sister!

I don’t have your problem, but a problem of my own (detailed in my own thread). And the sheer volume of idiotic advice I get from people on it is amazing to me.

Yes, please tell me about this cure to a problem I’ve had literally all my life and have known about and had to manage for about 30 years.

I can see that working. Swiss has a nutty taste already, after all.

Hot chocolate with chili powder.

I’m with you here on everything except the Marmite. 😛

Yeah, I’m with you here. That sounds like a great combo.

I have a friend who is legally blind. He can see. And this makes people act like utter shitheads to him when he uses his white cane.

But can you type? /s

Reactive hypoglycemia here.

If you see me trembling? TELL ME. I sometimes don’t notice it and the result can be an explosive burst of temper as fight-or-flight takes hold and I lash out. (I’m prone to the “fight” side.)

If you see me snacking, shut up with snide comments about weight gain. First, you’re probably fatter than me. Second, these little snacks are how I keep my blood sugar from cratering and reacting to your snide comments with a knife. (Metaphorical or literal: your choice.)

I’ve been living with reactive hypoglycemia for decades knowingly, and with a further two decades unknowingly. Trust me. I know waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more about this than you.

Given where I live, I suspect my future computers are going to be something called Risk-v inside. Running HarmonyOS.

Which suits me fine as I de-USAify the rest of my life as my phone and my computer age beyond utility.

I don’t find it physically exhausting but definitely mentally and spiritually draining. (“Hurry up and wait” in particular is a rage-triggering thing for me.) I learned to adapt by always carrying a book with me that I can pull out and start reading while others around me dither and force waiting periods.

I was bored and aggressive techbrodudes annoy me. It was a good combination.

The covid lockdowns showed me just how vulnerable the automation industry is to disruptions.

It also showed how valuable the automation industry was to cutting COVID-19 off at its knees if a bunch of pansy right-wingers hadn’t started to screech they couldn’t breath because of a few grams of paper on their face. (Weird how they can wear masks now when it involves being cruel to non-whites…)

When COVID-19 hit there was a shortage of surgical and N95 masks world-wide. Then a guy invented a machine that could “print” obscene numbers of surgical masks per day, each machine costing only about $50,000. Within weeks surgical masks were available to the point that they cost almost nothing. Then someone else figured out how to make KN95 masks easier to mass produce on the same kind of “printing” machine and now KN95 masks are also cheap like borscht and universally available.

Without automation there’d have been a whole lot more deaths to COVID-19 around the world, not just in snowflake countries.

What beans? I already spilled them: Entrust had “Tiger Team” that consisted entirely of people who’d found flaws in the security of the product; it existed entirely to NDA-bind the “team members” to squelch talk about the security failures.

You want me to spill the beans on the flaws? Can’t. I do marketing, not techie stuff. I just know about the “team”, not about the things people found to get into it.

I’ll make up the difference for both of you as a service to all the craft distilleries that would otherwise be going under.

There was a certain kind of discreet club that SO and I used to attend regularly, but it kind of fell apart during the Great Lockdown of 2020 and the subsequent COVID-19 management practices.

Dance clubs I never went to, at any point in my life really because I hate with the burning passion of a thousand suns most dance club music.

I didn’t sign an NDA, the guy I was dating did. And the company is long zombified (Entrust).

OK, so I ran this past a techie colleague. Here’s how he summarized this for me.

• @[email protected] is drawing a superficial parrallel between CPU speculation and LLM/AI unpredictability without acknowledging the crucial differences in determinism, transparency, and user experience.
• He’s relying on the likelihood that others in the conversation may not know the technical details of “CPU speculation”, allowing him to sound authoritative and dismissive (“this is old news, you just don’t get it”).
• By invoking an obscure technical concept and presenting it as a “gotcha,” he positions himself as the more knowledgeable, sophisticated participant, implicitly belittling others’ concerns as naïve or uninformed.

He is in short using bad faith argumentation. He’s not engaging with the actual objection (AI unpredictability and user control), but instead is derailing the conversation with a misleading-to-flatly-invalid analogy that serves more to showcase his own purported expertise than to clarify or resolve the issue.

The techniques he’s using are:

• Jargon as Gatekeeping:
  Using technical jargon or niche knowledge to shut down criticism or skepticism, rather than to inform or educate.

• False Equivalence:
  Pretending two things are the same because they share a superficial trait, when their real-world implications and mechanics are fundamentally different.

• Intellectual One-upmanship:
  The goal isn’t to foster understanding, but to “win” the exchange and reinforce a sense of superiority.

Explaining his bad objection in plain English, he’s basically saying “You’re complaining about computers guessing? Ha! They’ve always done that, you just don’t know enough to appreciate it.” But in reality, he’s glossing over the fact that:

• CPU speculation is deterministic, traceable, and (usually) invisible to the user.

• LLM/AI “guessing” is probabilistic, opaque, and often the source of user frustration.

• The analogy is invalid, and the rhetorical move is more about ego than substance.

TL;DR: @[email protected] is using his technical knowledge not to clarify, but to obfuscate and assert dominance in the conversation without regard to truth, a pretty much straightforward techbrodude move.