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[–] mawhrin@circumstances.run 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

@self @gerikson today i learned about existence of one richard feldman, programmer, podcaster, author of the roc language and quite a vicious promoter of the confabulation machines.

you'd be entirely unsurprised to see him quote lunduke as an information source.

[–] mawhrin@circumstances.run 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

@self @gerikson (but yeah, klabnik appealing for bans the first moment he got a friendly reply from the mods there is quite impressive too.)

steve klabnik on lobste dot rs appealing for bans the first moment he got friendly attention of the mods: “You’re welcome. Been having a lot of feelings about here lately, due to both this and the friendlysock ban (you may or may not remember, but I quit using the site for six years due to his behavior). To be clear, I think the ban is fine, even though he and I came to a thing closer to understanding recently, but the kind of behavior regularly on display in LLM related threads feels like it would be ban worthy in threads about any other topic. I’m not sure why it gets such a pass, especially when the site is clearly willing to ban users for bad behavior (which to be clear, I do think is a good thing). Honestly I think banning the topic would make this community look better, I think, at this point. But also maybe I’m overreacting, I dunno, this thread in particular has caused me a lot of… something, today. Maybe I’ll write more or DM you later, maybe even in a few days.”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

he now pretends he didn't appeal for banning participants in the discussion, just the topic.

i shouldn't, but i'm really disappointed finding out how much a nasty manipulative little shit he is.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

I'd only seen some of his other writing previously, and even that was full of some "oh woe is me" uwu burnout shit (which read tonedeaf as fuck to me, knowing this fucker probably barely had their means impacted by that), but this... ugh. ranking any of his shit even lower now

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