this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he would have been tweeting about how science can't explain the mechanical turk

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you just transported my brain to a world where the orange site somehow existed before computing and started making prediction market bets on the mechanical Turk revolutionizing Chess

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"rip chess players"

"10 UX takeaways from the mechanical Turk impact on the chess world"

"stop playing chess and learn how to build mechanical Turks"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

"what I learned from building a chessboard in a weekend"

"chess with matchsticks - I really liked orangeposter42069's weekend chess experiment but wanted to see if I could go even more extreme, [53000 word vomit continues, 3 Medium popover walls + coursebuy griftware on the side]"

"chess with matchsticks may be interesting, but AXESHOEWALLY bars of soap would be more period-appropriate"