Welcome to November, and 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.)___
I think he’s out on a thin limb.
If there’s one thing people who espouse “reasonable pro-AI” views push, is that the US has to go ahead building chatbots because otherwise the Chinese will beat us.
In the current point in time, AI is under perceived attack by the Democrats (I doubt they’ll go against the lobbyists but w/e) and the US Right has realized that no-one really likes Big Tech - they’re convenient scapegoats for all sorts of things. Sure they want billionaires in charge but people like Sam Altman aren’t really their kinds of people.
Throwing the book at Jensen would help both sides.
Would be amazing if Trump’s swan song was to scapegoat the CEOs who have been showering him in golden busts and laughing at his jokes for the last 2-3 years.
The man has no concept of loyalty owed, only loyalty received.