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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

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.)

(OT: 🎶 Do you remember...)

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[-] lurker@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 12 hours ago

An ai generated site, r/sneerclub really went downhill

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

Ah yes I always wanted to read an article in the form of a lot of teeny tiny boxes with lots and lots of janky scrolling.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 19 hours ago

TESCREAL schism indicator

[-] BioMan@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It is claiming that Yud is wrong in saying Doom before Massive AI-Caused Economic Boom boosts GDP growth above 5% by saying the boom is here.

Nah.

This is totally from some accelerationist or oligarch-toadie beefing with someone harshing their vibe

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 4 points 5 hours ago

I think you're probably right. I originally thought it must have been created by a rationalist, but an e/acc author makes more sense. After all, most of them are postrationalists.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago

Damn, who knew this would yield material for my boy-band cover/parody project. Foom flop, doo wop wop wop...

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 21 hours ago

Despite the fact that it highlights all the times Yudkowsky was wrong, this site feels like it could have been produced by a rationalist. In addition to all the AI slop, it just has that feel.

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 8 points 21 hours ago

it just has that feel.

yeah. Looking past the initial quiz, a lot of the complaints about Eliezer's predictions feel like rationalist inside-baseball about takeoff speeds and alignment strategies, as opposed to calling the whole thing bunk.

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 4 points 22 hours ago

Wow... I actually failed to get some of the times Eliezer has been wrong! His predictions are even worse than I remembered!

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 23 hours ago

people have noted that the writing style unfortunately appears to be ai-generated

Fittingly ironic, in my opinion.

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