Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Mad research skills:

    Are people in rich countries happier on average than people in poor countries? (According to GPT-4, the academic consensus is that it does, but I’m not sure it’s representing it correctly.)

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      imagine if anyone ever had studied any of this, and we could read those studies? it would be awesome! alas.

      alas, we’ll have to ask for tea-leaf derivation from the mass teacup collector. ssshhhhhhh, don’t ask about whether the tealeaves get disturbed during collection, they’re tetchy about that!

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Turns out AI is an existential threat, but only to LWs last bit of credibility of learning people to think better and to work against AIs messing up in a big way.

      “Should we nuke all datacenters to stop runaway AI? According to GPT-4, the concensus is that this would not stop it”