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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)
AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Platoās cave, scaring themselves witless:
https://www.emergent-values.ai/
At least Iāve IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs
why do all these papers have their own microsites, dedicated domain names (in Anguilla no less!), and shitty graphics? I canāt think of another branch of research that consistently does this shit. itās almost like itās all marketing fluff or something!
other vein
itās amazing that the paper site has its own little pretty marketing pictures. easily digestible unseriousness!
Dāoh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off
seeing dan in the authors list made me realize