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[–] BigMuffN69@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Super forecasters update timeline by 150% their og forecast.

Fucking dumbasses

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dont worry guys, the alien spaceships from Niburu are taking a bit longer to arrive.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 12 hours ago

I snorted a bit of my drink

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2 points 11 hours ago

will these guys ever get to rainbow-chart levels of galaxy brain or will just be content to fudge some numbers on regular visuals?

This is reminiscent of memestock/buttcoin charts where a new asymptomatic curve is dropped onto the same rather flat graph over and over again.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 18 hours ago

It's a logarithmic plot to begin with and they still feel the need to make the curve exponential lol.

I'm sure they have a rigorous and objective metric for what coding tasks take how long at what success rate for humans.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

As long as line go up then everything is going ok ☺️/s

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 6 points 21 hours ago

I look forward to the cultists continuing to update these graphs convinced they are seeing the future of the cosmos as fewer and fewer people pay attention to the fever dreams

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

...you know the first time you mentioned this I assumed it was just for the bit but now I'm both impressed and intimidated.