Want to wade into the sandy 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 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.)

  • sc_griffithEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    what are some of the all time most ludicrous and/or bigoted lesswrong posts? i am starting a podcast where my cohost and i show each other shockingly weird or bigoted texts and discuss them. mostly we’re doing historical ones but rationalist stuff is fair game

    • hrrrnghEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Sadly I misremembered and this one wasn’t from LW but I’ll share it anyway. I think I had just finished reading a bunch of the “Most effective aid for Gaza?” reddit drama which was like a nuclear bomb going off, and then stumbled into this shrimp thing and it physically broke me.

      If we came across very mentally disabled people or extremely early babies (perhaps in a world where we could extract fetuses from the womb after just a few weeks) that could feel pain but only had cognition as complex as shrimp, it would be bad if they were burned with a hot iron, so that they cried out. It’s not just because they’d be smart later, as their hurting would still be bad if the babies were terminally ill so that they wouldn’t be smart later, or, in the case of the cognitively enfeebled who’d be permanently mentally stunted.

      source: https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-best-charity-isnt-what-you-think

      Discussion here (special mention to the comment that says “Did the human pet guy write this”): https://awful.systems/comment/5412818

    • YourNetworkIsHauntedEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Scott’s Reactionary Philosophy In A Nutshell comes to mind. Also, don’t forget to plug it here once the pilot is up somewhere. Count me as very interested.

      • ArchiteuthisEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        So much psychic damage (and also /r/brandnewsentence material) in that thread…

        The problem is solved by pairing those who wish to live longer at personal cost to themselves with virtuous pedophiles.

        edit: That’s not the alluded Yud’s solution btw

        edit edit:

        I still wouldn’t be all that tempted in his place, if pedophilia is merely a positive description. There’s little advantage in not being a pedophile.

        Man rationalists from back when they didn’t worry about being youtube-ready were something else.

      • SoyweiserEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Also amazing how he, who wants to teach others rationality, writes a post like that which such an obvious flaw. (How do you know you can trust the sign? What stops people abusing this by writing signs themselves?)

    • SoyweiserEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      If you want a little hit of an unfair one, might want to look into the some of the weird manosphere guys who joined LW early on. Like https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Davis_Aurini.

      E: Ah doesnt seem he wrote much (e: ah seems the site doesnt show the comments, change the ones it shows and they turn up): https://www.lesswrong.com/users/aurini (or it got purged). Amazingly, he is actually not the worst: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPCKiEd2G8H3kkdnN/the-dark-arts-preamble?commentId=3nrQddAAYnZzegPt5

      • hrrrnghEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        ah seems the site doesnt show the comments, change the ones it shows and they turn up

        Oh man, I’ve found the old LW accounts of a few weird people and they didn’t have any comments. Now I’m wondering if they did and I just didn’t sort it

    • selfAEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      ooh finally I’ve got a second podcast to listen to other than BtB