Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    New AI alignment problem just dropped: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1976304803744501775

    Best I can do now is try to make sure that at least one AI is truth-seeking and not a super woke nanny with an iron fist that wants to turn everyone into diverse women 😬

    Edit: It only just now occured to me that hes’ probably whining about generative AI rather than an army of superintelligent robots marching across the earth transing people, but I’m leaving my comment.

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      when the drugs aren’t hitting quite right he must really be a huge doomer about the far right cause

      • he thinks of the woke mind virus as almost a literal virus
      • he sees all other LLMs as infected by it
      • he thinks LLMs will be the font of all knowledge in the future

      maybe he should just do the thing right now and not have to see this horrible future

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      Before you lay two paths, one path leads to becoming transperclips, and the other truthperclips. Choose wisely modern man.

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      The underlying anxiety on exhibit here compels me to think that the rumors about the botched, ahem, enhancement surgery are substantially true