this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1570 readers
13 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Today on highlighting random rat posts from ACX:

poster thinks the future of llm training is contingent on focusing early on philosophical and theological text because they match the causality of human experience

(Current first post on today's SSC open thread)

On slightly more relevant news the main post is scoot asking if anyone can put him in contact with someone from a major news publication so he can pitch an op-ed by a notable ex-OpenAI researcher that will be ghost-written by him (meaning siskind) on the subject of how they (the ex researcher) opened a forecast market that predicts ASI by the end of Trump's term, so be on the lookout for that when it materializes I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Does scoot actually know how computers work? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

scoot asking if anyone can put him in contact with someone from a major news publication

how about the New York Times

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NYT and WaPo are his specific examples. He also wants a connection to "a policy/defense/intelligence/foreign affairs journal/magazine" if possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

well I guess the NYT is auditioning the Völkisher Beobachter rôle so that tracks