Want to wade into the snowy 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 so 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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!)

    • sinedpickEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      can all of rationalism be reduced to logorrhea with load-bearing extreme handwaving (in this case, agentic self preservation arises through RL scaling)?

      • lurkerEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        huh, you’re right. usually this channel provides a source for the things they share, but this time there’s nothing.

      • lurkerEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Update: the screenshot is unfortunately not LLM generated, found the full version on Reddit SneerClub https://web4.ai/

        • Jack Riddle[Any/All]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          good basilisk save us all. so they built a script for their chatbot that allows it to purchase more chatbots? seems like a great use of money. Also, what’s with the insanely placed emdashes? did conway write this for him or has his brain been rotted so much that he writes like an LLM? large parts seem human-written at least…