How is saying the author has “slopbrain” is “addressing the idea on its own merits”? It’s just name calling.

halfmatthalfcat 9 hours ago | parent [-]

They aren't addressing my comment (which is obviously an overreaction to the tweet), he's asking you why we should appeal to authority rather than evaluate whether Karpathy is completely overreacting and in way too deep.

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johnfn 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The intent of my comment was to state that you should write something more substantive than dismissing Karpathy as “slopbrain”. I wasn’t appealing to authority by saying that he was correct — just that he deserves more than name calling in a response.

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halfmatthalfcat 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Evidently by "LLM/AI psychosis" coming into the mainstream zeitgeist, "slopbrain" isn't too far off.

	▲	johnfn 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Now you're just saying "AI psychosis exists" (true) and then saying Karpathy has it. That is, again, essentially name calling, like saying someone is insane rather than addressing their points. If you really think Karpathy is psychotic you should explain why, but I don't think anything in the Tweet suggests that. My read of his tweet is that there is a lot of churn and new concepts in the software engineering industry, and that doesn't seem like a very psychotic thing to say.