• VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
    3 months

    You say this, but I got banned from a sub for being a corporate shill for trying to explain to what I’m pretty sure was a 13 year old kid that AI is not going to dissapear and that it’s not just a fun toy used to make shitty TikTok videos

    I would explain what AI Agents were and how they worked and what they did and I was told I was a troll that like to suck my bosses dick… and then I was banned

    My job? Software engineer. Been one for over 20 years.

    Those same people that called me a troll, a shill, a company man that liked to suck my bosses dick; the mods that banned me; they are all probably here right now talking about how stupid it is that people don’t listen to experts…

    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
      3 months

      I’m 37, you stupid fucking shill.

      And you are not a software developer. I don’t believe you. I don’t believe you have 20 years experience at being alive.

      • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
        3 months

        If you’re 37 and you still call people a shill that’s just sad

        Weird you both think I’m an AI shill but also I’m not in the industry

        • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
          3 months

          No, it’s just the one thing, you can be a stupid shill and know nothing about the greater concepts of what you shill, you’re a perfect example of that. You just love sucking dick. I don’t think you even have a job, at this point, and if you do it’s not in software.

          • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world
            3 months

            Shill - a deceptive accomplice who poses as an enthusiastic, impartial customer to trick others into buying a product or participating in a scheme. Today, the term is also used more broadly (often as a verb, to shill) to describe anyone who promotes something for pay without disclosing their financial ties.

            So how am I getting paid to promote AI if I’m not in the industry?

  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
    3 months

    I see the point, but I don’t think intellectual elitism is the same as anti-anti-intellectualism. I think intellectual elitism creates a sense of alienation from science that in fact leads to anti-intellectualism. “I have more specialized knowledge than you” is not the same as “I’m better than you,” and acknowledging that is the solution

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      3 months

      Right, but people will call nearly anything elitism these days. The reason schools don’t offer accelerated learning programs for students who aren’t challenged by the average coursework is because people were calling that type of thing elitist.

      Instead, now we put the upper quartile in the same classes as the lower quartile so that nobody receives the particular level and kind of attention that they need, and everyone is held to “average” whether they’re predisposed to be above that expectation or below it.

      If someone is talented at a sport, people shower them with praise and give them full rides to college. If someone is talented at math or writing, people tell them to be a team player and stop surpassing their peers by so far. Merit-based scholarships are rare nowadays too, so good luck going to a top university just because you excel at your subjects…

  • tyranny@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    3 months

    interesting that the post didn’t say “daddy-blogger”. hopefully this isn’t a symptom of site-wide subtle misogyny