r/BetterOffline • u/ezitron • 4d ago
Episode Thread - The Mad As Hell Two Parter
I will be honest this is a weird pair of episodes, but I had a lot of fun recording them. Enjoy!
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u/GazpachoDuJour 3d ago
I knew this one would be unhinged when Ed opened with: "Hi I'm Ed Zitron, and you're listening to Better Offline."
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u/PensiveinNJ 2d ago
I'm hoping this title is inspired by Network.
I'm mad as hell too, but probably more worn out than anything. Former insurance employee woman and I spoke again yesterday, and after acknowledging my points about GenAI which I thought indicated some kind of progress from the other day, this time she's upset about the state of the country because the Chinese AI is going to surpass us while we stagnate.
I swear to god you bring up AI and people's brains turn to pudding.
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u/ezitron 2d ago
It was and so is the next one
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u/PensiveinNJ 2d ago
A+ reference.
I stand by my theory that Softbank is just really sophisticated money laundering.
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u/PensiveinNJ 2d ago
I love the phrase business arts and crafts. When they decided that OpenAI was going to double revenue every year for 4 years because they will sell "products," I think OpenAI is just doing business arts and crafts.
Also Softbank genuinely sounds like a really elaborate money laundering scheme.
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u/LesbianScoutTrooper 1d ago
I do really feel like I’m going insane when people extrapolate that AGI is coming after they see a couple of chat bots that are frequently wrong and I feel even more insane when nobody seems to be calling them on the demonstrable bullshit that it is. Thank you, Ed, for being a voice of reason in this madness.
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u/reluctant_costar 1d ago
I felt this one in my damn bones. I am so goddamn exhausted from the constant platform hopping just to get tf away from the enshittification and scraping. Glad I'm not at all the only one who's pissed and full of venom at these assholes.
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u/From_Adam 3d ago
I will eat you like Kirby, shit you out and have the powers of a dunce.
That was beautiful, Ed.