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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 2 months ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

BTW 9th of September is not a Sunday lol

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alex Jones interviews ChatGPT: https://xcancel.com/RealAlexJones/status/1830063258088181941

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I know what I'm listening to this evening. Knowledge Fight Link

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

I usually can't stand radio-style podcasters but these guys are just too good. The way they play off each other is top notch.

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[–] veganes_hack@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

that didn't take long https://blog.kagi.com/announcing-assistant

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I knew Kagi was kinda screwed the moment the CEO went off like Castle Bravo, but jeez

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my favourite thing about kagi is how when you click on the kagi logo on the kagi.com home page you get a 404

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

NASB is there an xcancel but for medium dot com?

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever thought to yourself "I wish I could read Yud's Logorrhea but in the form of a boring yet pretentious cartoon-- like a Rationalist Cinematic Universe!"?

Well boy oh boy do I have a link for you:

https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1832452673867546802

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVN_5xsMDdg

TBH I thought the whole star blinking plot point was kind of neat when I was a teenager, but thought the story got a bit muddled by the end. Of course at the time I was trying to read it as a sci-fi story and not a P(doom) propaganda piece. My mistake.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

thoughts, in order:

wow that's an annoying narrator voice (but I guess you have to stay on brand?)
"oh god, this shit again. but maybe I won't have to endure much of it?"
(timecode: 00:21) checks video runbar "nope.", tab closed

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1832452673867546802

I didn't want to watch the cartoon because I thought I could just skim the story faster, and that's how I read the "Hurr durr AI can derive general relativity in three frames, nothing personnel, kid" story in full for the first time. It sucks that people didn't nip Yud in the bud early enough by telling him he lacked sci-fi chops, though I suspect that wouldn't have slowed him down at all.

The story itself is an allegory^1^ about AI processing information fast^2^. Yud wasn't thinking of himself as a sci-fi writer when writing this; he probably thought he was the messiah delivering a sermon, which... is exactly how I've come to understand Yud anyway.

the fact of which is explicitly spelt out in the middle third when it drops out of the narrative entirely to do so
see hurr durr description in paragraph above

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