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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Apologies for not getting the previous one up - my old laptop died)

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[-] BioMan@awful.systems 8 points 22 hours ago
[-] BioMan@awful.systems 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I hate hate hate that my niche internet morbid fascination from my college laptop in 2009 is now an oval office power struggle.

Quotes from the president of the united states in the last twelve hours:

"The only control or guardrails that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT"

"There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers"

"Americanism, not effective altruism" (!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA"

...I guess the Peter Thiel faction won.

Are we gearing up for a lepoard face moment from the cultist faction of the cultist / oligarch-technofedual-lord / grifter / authoritarian alliance?

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago

Letting normies who never learned to spot a mailing-list blowhard and a comment-section troll onto the Internet was a mistake.

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 6 points 20 hours ago

Are we gearing up for a lepoard face moment from the cultist faction of the cultist / oligarch-technofedual-lord / grifter / authoritarian alliance?

Nah, lesswrongers don't even have that level of introspection. Plus a lot of them are outright pro-oligarch-technofedual-lord, at least enough so that it outweighs their doomer-cultists allegiance.

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I hate to turn this into a screenshot fest but i mean...

They're calling out effective altruism BY NAME from the white house. The president is still ranting about this. This is NEW.

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago

This is hilarious. I didn't think it was possible, but maybe the lesswrongers and EAs will finally realize they are in a leopards-eating-face moment?

Or maybe they will double down? I.e. they conclude that if they were less woke maybe Trump wouldn't have turned on them? Haha.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 13 hours ago

doubling down is mandatory for acausal blackmail reasons

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago
[-] scruiser@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago

Lol, I called it without even having to see it. Doubling down and blaming EAs for being too left even as the right curbstomps them. How does that boot taste?

Also, WTF does Eliezer even think "leftist" means?

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

And here come the brain worms:

'New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday there should be a "far greater response" from the federal government on "incredibly alarming" reports of out-of-control AI agents, referencing the possibility of the "end of humanity." '

This is going to be an amazing few months. Not in a good way. The factions in the US government taking sides in an angels on the head of a pin debate. All the warring brainworms of 2010 web forums making a nest on Capitol Hill.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago

To say that our system of governance is ill-equipped for the present moment seems like an understatement. Welcome to the turning of the jackpot death spiral, the orgy of technological self-destruction and institutions of sham democracy captured by capital, the bill for all the problems we never solved coming due with interest. Sucks to be us.

[-] sansruse@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago

at least lina khan had the right take. apologies for the xitter link: https://x.com/linamkhan/status/2099204390548639960

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 2 points 11 hours ago

I think I am yet to see her NOT having the right take on something.

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 4 points 19 hours ago

And the white house is not just calling out the doomers, but the companies themselves doomtrolling over how dangerous their new stuff is and how omg its ROGUE!

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 4 points 20 hours ago

"Democrat-polarized" is such a word choice. Like, ah yes, it is clearly the Democrat's fault the right goes batshit at even a hint global warming is real or at any sort of gun regulation or any social safety net expansion.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 18 hours ago

You hardly need me to explain this, but the primary thing a conservative seeks to conserve is their own wealth and influence. Of course the deflation of the bubble begins Yud's conversion process

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago

I actually suspect he really does think he is above that and is unlikely to go down the right wing grifter rabbithole. The 'only i can save the world' fix is so much stronger than any other weaksauce dopamine he could get from that.

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