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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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    evidence of wider continued rising of the tide against saltmanā€™s bullshit grows

    Precisely when that rising tide will drown Altman Iā€™m not sure, but I feel safe in saying itā€™ll probably drown the rest of the AI industry (and potentially ā€œAIā€ as a concept) as well - Altman is pretty much the face of this AI bubble, after all.

    The rising tide was likely also helped along by OpenAI going fully for-profit, which shattered the humanitarian guise it spent the last decade or so building, and, to quote myself, ā€œgiven the true believers reason to believe [Altman would] commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buckā€.

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        Every AI spring brings an even harsher AI winter.

        Oh, I expect a real harsh AI winter once this spring comes to a close - the public isnā€™t just overtly disappointed about AIā€™s failure to deliver, but outright angry at the nasty shit AIā€™s unleashed upon them.