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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • gerikson@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    Following up from this truth bomb: https://awful.systems/comment/4877052

    @Soyweiser: Sorry AGIbros, not even the Dutch believe AGI is near.

    For your delectation, here are the HN comments

    Iā€™m in the other camp: I remember when we thought an AI capable of solving Go was astronomically impossible and yet here we are. This article reads just like the skeptic essays back then.

    Ah yes my coworkers communicate exclusively in Go games and they are always winning because they are AI and I am on the street, poor.

    Thereā€™s not that much else to sneer at though, plenty of reasonable people.

    Hereā€™s the lobste.rs disucssion: https://lobste.rs/s/4xzxqk

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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      2 months ago

      oh i dunno, there was

      Honestly - Computer Science has given us more clues about how the human mind might work than cognitive science ever did.

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        2 months ago

        This remark is actually part of a long fight between CS and CS people. And it is really frustrating in various ways, as CS always thinks they did better than CS while being blind of the actual accomplishments of CS they donā€™t know and just how complex the subject matter is. It is an annoying failure to communicate between both disciplines. (A lot of people donā€™t fall victim to this btw, but it can be really annoying to encounter a ā€˜Our CS is good, and theirs is bad because strawmanā€™, who often donā€™t even realize that various words have different meanings in the different fields).

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          2 months ago

          For the record, I think the Counter-Strike people are correct on this one, mainly because heuristically Confederate States advocates are wrong by default.

          • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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            2 months ago

            Exactly the problem im talking about. What about all the good things the confederate state ā€¦ no wait.