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.

(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)

  • sus@programming.devEnglish
    15Ā·
    8 days ago

    the scott alexander fanclub on reddit is especially unhinged lately. Some choice picks, beginning gently with a sneer:

    Anyone who says there is a 0% chance of a fried egg being sentient is overconfident. Nobody knows what causes consciousness. We have no way of detecting it & we can barely agree on a definition. So we should be less than 100% certain about anything to do with consciousness and fried eggs.

    moving on,

    For me, I currently believe that the way forward is gathering my Dunbar community of ~150 values-aligned people and dropping out together to live in intentional community, generally off-the-grid, interacting with technology only as a tool (no news/algorithms/push notifications), close enough to a major city to visit friends but far enough away to isolate ourselves when we want to.
    We then push forward into an unknown world, supporting each other, doing enough trade and consulting with the outside world to ensure a positive trade surplus for the collective and distributing the profits among us to sustain the community.

    Yes, that is a response to AI despair. In a ā€œnon-doomer threadā€. Because of course.

    but what takes the cake is the regularly scheduled IQ thread, a beautiful dumpster fire which burns especially bright on this day. Yet one specimen soars above the din:

    The average should recognize and accept their inferiority and make peace with the fact that they will live and die a mediocre life. They should stop trying to interfere in the affairs of their betters and content themselves with their own garden, which can provide enough happiness for them until the end of their life if properly cultivated.

    Further study of the userā€™s excreta clarifies that they are:

    • sincere
    • definitely not racist

    warning: HEAVY PSYCHIC DAMAGE and I really hope the spoiler block functions correctly on your end

    spoiler

    [sic] we should treat all low human capital like zoo animals regardless of skin colour [\sic]

    (archives: one two three)

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      14Ā·
      7 days ago

      We then push forward into an unknown world, supporting each other, doing enough trade and consulting with the outside world to ensure a positive trade surplus for the collective and distributing the profits among us to sustain the community.

      Thatā€™s just a commune. Like my brother in Christ I think youā€™re just talking about communism.

        • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
          15Ā·
          7 days ago

          I think itā€™s quite funny that they talk about distributing the profits. these guys are all far right creeps. realistically the only thing theyā€™re going to be distributing is calories to the nearby bears

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      12Ā·
      7 days ago

      For me, I currently believe that the way forward is gathering my Dunbar community of ~150 values-aligned people and dropping out together to live in intentional community

      Years ago (sadly I forgot to take a acreenshot, as the posts were silently removed) there was somebody recruiting for something like this on themotte. Something like ā€œyou sound like a good match for our homesteading group, check out our blood and soil(*) voatā€. Which was a pretty bad sign (wonder how much of that shit was done via dms).

      *: for the few who do not know, this is one of those undeniable neo-nazi terms.

      E: And the universe aligned and reminded me of this tweet

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        10Ā·
        7 days ago

        A fried egg cannot code

        Prove it. It is more likely it actually can code, but refuses to do so. Perhaps fried eggs have a genetic predisposition to vore?

        E: other comment there:

        We canā€™t be 100% sure of anything

        Are you sure about that?

        When I asked Claude if itā€™s sentient

        AAAAAa (it gets even worse when they are gods in the gapping sentience).

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        9Ā·
        7 days ago

        in the slatestar club. straight up ā€˜sleight of mouthing itā€™. and by ā€˜itā€™, haha, well. letā€™s justr say. My peanits.