I’ve learned that whenever someone uses tons of big words in long paragraphs, especially if they have a credential next to their name, it’s ridiculously easy for them to BS you.

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Lammy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is this the future you want? :p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIo4MCO-_U

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dudu24 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a non-response.

	▲	keyshapegeo99 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Disagree, it's making a valid observation. If someone is nominally trying to convince you of a point, but they shroud this point within a thicket of postmodern verbiage* that is so dense that most people could never even identify any kind of meaning, you should reasonably begin to question whether imparting any point at all is actually the goal here. *Zizek would resist being cleanly described as a postmodernist - but when it comes to his communication style, his works are pretty much indistinguishable from Sokal affair-grade bullshit. He's usually just pandering to a slightly different crowd. (Or his own navel.)

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pyinstallwoes 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You should try reading ccru then.

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kjkjadksj 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These paragraphs aren't even long...

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iaabtpbtpnn 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The man is a Continental academic philosopher using jargon that is specific to his field. It is not BS, he is simply discussing topics that are unfamiliar to you. The same could be said of a technical reference manual. Not all ideas fit in a tweet.

	▲	Animats 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. It's very Derrida in style. Derrida is not mentioned, but, inevitably from that crowd, Marx is. Once you get used to that style, you realize they're not saying much. Quoting from Marx: “An ardent desire to detach the capacity for work from the worker—the desire to extract and store the creative powers of labour once and for all, so that value can be created freely and in perpetuity." That happened to manufacturing a long time ago, and then manufacturing got automated enough that there were fewer bolt-tighteners. 1974 was the year US productivity and wages stopped rising together. As many others have pointed out, "AI" in its current form does to white collar work what assembly lines did to blue collar work. As for how society should be organized when direct labor is a tiny part of the economy, few seem to be addressing that. Except farmers, who hit that a long time ago. Go look at the soybean farmer situation as an extreme example. This paper offers no solutions. (I'm trying to get through Pikkety's "Capital and Ideology". He's working on that problem.)