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This is going to crash like the Titanic.
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:19PM (#49185915)
AI is for retards.
AI is for retards.
You seem hateful.
I'm surprised Trump hasn't federally legalized marijuana as a last-ditch effort to boost his popularity. He's good at embracing popular left-wing policy measures when he needs a boost; stimulus checks worked well for this purpose during his 2016-2020 term.
Re:Position: LLMs Can't Jump on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @11:55AM (#49184635)
OpenAI/Anthropic is god (or at least, "the lord") in this scenario.
https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/r_word.html

> forcing language change seldom works, and ultimately, all they’re really doing is ushering us onto the next euphemism. They may banish “the R-word”, but soon enough, you’ll walk by a middle school playground and overhear “That movie was so developmentally disabled”.

I'm using "retard" because the term has extensive cultural baggage and everyone here has childhood memories of bullies labeling their victims as "retards". It hurts to have the label applied to you. For that reason I think these comments are going to stick with people once they leave this comments section.

"Retard" is a forbidden curse (read: slur) that holds great power in the English language.

I understand the risks of using this sort of language, and yet still I have determined that it is prudent to use the harshest rhetorical weapons that we have available to resist the large AI firms.

"Clanker" much less potent, much less powerful. I want an anti-AI slogan that stays in people's minds after they leave this comments section, and I think "AI is for retards" is that slogan.

I've considered my options and I've come to the conclusion that ruthlessly assaulting the reputations of LLM users (read: addicts, retards) is the most effective path forward for resisting the large LLM firms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

Vulgarity makes the message stick in people's minds.

AI is for retards.

I didn't say anything racist or sexist. I'm mocking stupid people who are sucking up all the air in the room.

Fuck these AI retards.

"Discourse" around AI on this forum and many others is heavily censored to the point of outlawing legitimate criticism of LLMs.

The marketing departments of the major LLM firms have done a phenomenal job of creating narratives which subvert the possibility of liberal discourse on this issue.

For that reason, I'm choosing to demean the (frankly, retarded) users of AI.

If you want to win, our slogan is "AI IS FOR RETARDS"

The slur is necessary to convey the total dysfunction of LLM chat bots.

A human being as exceptionally stupid as an LLM chatbot could not possibly get hired for any type of job. A human being as exceptionally stupid as an LLM chatbot is too stupid to survive.

To say that LLM chat bots are "slow" or "stupid" or "misleading" is to misrepresent how terribly inadequate their performance is.

Re:Position: LLMs Can't Jump on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:52AM (#49182933)
> Why everybody is obsessed with replacing humans with LLMs when it seems like the most profitable use cases (like coding agents) rely on enhancing human capabilities?

The only way to justify trillion dollar valuations is to sell cruelty-free robot slaves which replace white collar labor for pennies on the dollar.

Even though it's a complete and total sham, there's no American agency willing to or capable of prosecuting these firms for fraud, so they really have very strong incentives to keep up the lie.

Re:FFmpeg 9.0 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:36AM (#49166677)
Finally, some real fucking technology.
Seems like wishful thinking. Why not just pay skilled software developers to write the code the tried and true way?
This is a new form of prayer for those who can't break their religious addiction to LLM code generators.