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.

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

  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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    how do you even define ā€œraw, intellectual horsepowerā€ and how does it differ from knowing how to formulate questions mother fucker

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      2 hours ago

      Pretty sure thereā€™s gonna be a contract somewhere that defines raw intelligence as ā€œthe amount of money you make for OpenAI.ā€

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      ā€œRaw, intellectual horsepowerā€ means fucking an intellectual horse without a condom.

      Oh, wait, thatā€™s rawdogging intellectual horsepower, my mistake.

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        shot:

        Von Neumann arguably had the highest processor-type ā€œhorsepowerā€ we know of plus his breadth of intellectual achievements is unparalleled.

        chaser:

        But imo Grothendieck is a better comparison point for ASI as his intelligence, while being strangely similar to LLMs in some dimensions

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      12 hours ago

      the bit about it that I find subtly glorious (in how remarkably fuckwitted it is) is the baseline idea of ā€œintellectual horsepowerā€

      Iā€™m not surprised that this is a view they (of the company thatā€™s effectively going ā€œjust 12 more DCs bro itā€™ll be enough compute bro I promise bro just watchā€) hold and consider in such a simple mechanism-rating scale

      but it is funny as fuck