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Welcome to November, and 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 soo 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.)

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[-] lurker@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago

Anthropic employee has had their brain destroyed by rationalist circlejerk

‘we need to make armageddon happen as fast as possible even though I dont think it will be very good. a trillion dollars please’

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Well obviously they wouldn't bother calling themselves, that never accomplishes anything. They will instead raise money for a new lobbyist think-tank.

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

I've been going down a Weird Little Guys archive binge for a little bit here and this eschatology is even less hinged than the most ridiculous accelerationist nazi terror screed.

[-] robjwells@awful.systems 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

They have not called their elected representatives to inform them that this is what they believe

“Hello, Ms Congresswoman? The computers! They’re going to kill us all! The only way to save humanity is to spend a trillion dollars on killer computers! I work for a soon-to-be publicly listed company making maybe-killer computers.”

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

"Since you [Ms. Congresswoman] can't manage an international total ban on all AI progress, the only alternative is to bail out my company so we can maybe have a small chance at inventing a friendly AI before the Chiense invent skynet. Obviously the Chinese are behind us and have only gotten as far as they have by distillation attacks to steal our models' training (that we trained with honestly-and-totally-fair-use acquired scrapes of the entire internet), BUT if you just make us stop, the Chinese will catch up in 6 months and then we will have Chinese skynet, or worse yet, an AI aligned to communism and the CPP!"

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