Comment by janalsncm
1 month ago
> February 2025: "I will keep writing this stuff until I’m proven wrong." Wrong (Zitron continues to write despite repeatedly being proven wrong)
This was a good one.
1 month ago
> February 2025: "I will keep writing this stuff until I’m proven wrong." Wrong (Zitron continues to write despite repeatedly being proven wrong)
This was a good one.
Hilarious, but he never actually said he'd stop writing, just that he'd continue writing until proven wrong.
And provably, he did. He wrote until then, and continued after. Since he never stopped writing, he met the challenge.
He's now free to stop writing whenever he wants and still not fail that statement. ;)
Are you a software tester?
Maybe just a big Mitch Hedberg fan?
I am a developer, but my wife is a tester. And I've always enjoyed logic puzzles. :D
The doctor said I was sick...but I did not die on Tuesday, so checkmate!
You are confusing an imprecise prognosis with a false diagnosis. And The funniest part is that "he keeps writing, therefore he was proven wrong" contains no actual proof that he is wrong.
Imprecise and incorrect are the same thing when it comes to an exact science. His predictions include dates and that makes them binary. You can only be right or wrong. Being close is still incorrect, and he's not even close.
Indeed. I’m baffled by the comments here. He predicted that a plateau had been reached multiple times in Spring 2024, and now more than two years have passed and capabilities have exploded since then.
He wasn’t being imprecise, he wasn’t “correct in spirit”, he was DEAD WRONG.
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It’s more like if Zitron was a doctor his prognosis would be “you’re going to die on Tuesday” and you come back on Wednesday (after not dying on Tuesday) and he defends it by saying “everybody dies”.
I cant believe you think this is a logical argument :-) If these are humans please gives us LLMs :-)