The spooks grow ever closer, and the abyss grows ever sandier.

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.)

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    11 days ago

    I have unfortunately stumbled upon some nonsense from r/singularity

    shockingly, the top comments are calling bs:

    ”I’m sorry but I think this time line is a load of bull. “Human task duration at 80% success”. How exactly do you put a millenium prize puzzle on such an axis? It doesn’t even make any sense. Whoever is making this chart is just trying to stay relevant but his analysis holds little predictive power.”

    They also missed how that graph is measuring software/coding tasks, while the OP was estimating based off math ability, which are two wildly different fields

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      11 days ago

      i also like how they skipped the part where it was 10k (or whatever) instances running in parallel

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        9 days ago

        The y axis is also incredibly misleading-everything under 56h is squashed down so that the gap looks bigger

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          9 days ago

          If they wanted to show exponential relationship, then exponential scale would work better, but i think it was just a ceiling on former benchmarks