Just two weeks til’ Halloween now.

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.)

  • ArchiteuthisEnglish
    8·
    8 hours ago

    Decent monday morning take from robert evans:

    Schrodinger’s double-think.

    transcription

    Quote skeet:

    This is a researcher at Anthropic. Some of these people have lost their minds! What is mainlining Claude all day doing to them?

    there are basically two possible futures at this point. either we’re all going to die of[sic] the future is going to be Good beyond our wildest imagination. the trick is to hold this duality in your head and not be driven insane by one side.

    Robert Evans (the only Robert Evans):

    some of these people get so locked into a labyrinth of Rationalist thought experiments that they are no longer really capable of interacting with reality 1/2

    you can in fact limit the horizons of possibility in your own mind so severely that you are no longer able to “think” in a useful way 2/2

    • lurkerEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Ah yes ‘only these two things are possible, dont consider any other outcome’ truly rational thought

      • lurkerEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Also, ‘it’ll be Good beyond our wildest imagination’ is just weak. ‘yeah bro AI is gonna make everything super good. How? uhhh i dont know it just will’

    • swlabrEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      (To the tune of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme*): self-inflicted psychic debuff

      *The correct theme, not the heretical one. If you have to ask, you’re wrong

    • SoyweiserEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      It isnt Claude that did this to them, it is their desire to be lesswrong.