Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024 - awful.systems
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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 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. (Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this [https://awful.systems/post/1162442].)

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 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this, and happy new year in advance.)

  • @geriksonEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    as an amuse bouche for the horrors that will follow this year, please enjoy this lobste.rs reaching the melting down end stage after going full Karen at someone who agrees with a submitted post saying LLMs are a dead end when it comes to AI.

    https://lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_current_ai_represent_dead_end#c_tefto4

    Thankfully, accusing someone of being a crapto promoter is seen as an attack that is beyond the pale.

    Highlights from the rest of the thread include bemoaning the lack of a downvote button for registering disapproval:

    https://lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_current_ai_represent_dead_end#c_ft9mpj

    unilaterally deciding to reply multiple times to one comment, neccesitating them to add a meta comment with hyperlinks

    https://lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_current_ai_represent_dead_end#c_jjk5ei

    And of course is a MoreWronger (moroner?)

    • @blakestaceyAEnglish
      11•2 months ago

      If you go over to LessWrong, you can get some ideas of what is possible

      • @geriksonEnglish
        7•2 months ago

        I just got a hit of esprit d’escalier, and wished I’d replied to this

        But the road to Hackers News is paved with good intentions.

        with

        So too is the road to Roko’s Basilisk.

        • @geriksonEnglish
          5•2 months ago

          I’m increasingly convinced that this person is in a dark place mentally, and am fighting an internal battle to keep poking them for the lulz or just ignoring them.

          https://lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_current_ai_represent_dead_end#c_cyrxm4

          (I’ve seen this behavior on lobste.rs before and I think sometimes people literally get banned for their own good)

          Edit bored on a train so I did the math, in the comment thread, this user has made 30% of the comments by count and 20% by “volume” (basically number of bytes in the plaintext).

          • @froztbyteEnglish
            6•2 months ago

            Edit bored on a train so I did the math, in the comment thread, this user has made 30% of the comments by count and 20% by “volume” (basically number of bytes in the plaintext).

            tha’s a lotta posting

            • @geriksonEnglish
              5•2 months ago

              Adderall will do that to a fellow

    • @SoyweiserEnglish
      8•2 months ago

      Lol of course they think they are civil and other people as pushing nasty rethoric. Quite the sealion feeling.

      Wonder if they even notice how much communication weirdness they themself used. With the emphasis of emotional laden language. (They didnt use bold so i cant call it crank capitalization, but more crank cursive. A big deal for me! ;) )

      Anyway the questioning of “how do you know this is why there is no downvoting” shows the type of person they are. (And is quite the Rationalist annoying behavior, suddenly they demand excessive sourcing for small remarks of people they disagree with).

    • flere-imsahoEnglish
      5•2 months ago

      one day i’ll finally catch a lobste permaban thanks to your links :-)