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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know this is like super low-hanging fruit, but Reddit’s singularity forum (AGI hype-optimists on crack) discuss the current chapter in the OpenAI telenovela and can’t decide whether Ilya and Jan Leike leaving is good, because no more lobotomizing the Basilisk, or bad, because no more lobotomizing the Basilisk.

Yep, there’s no scenario here where OpenAI is doing the right thing, if they thought they were the only ones who could save us they wouldn’t dismantle their alignment team, if AI is dangerous, they’re killing us all, if it’s not, they’re just greedy and/or trying to conquer the earth.

vs.

to be honest the whole concept of alignment sounds so fucked up. basically playing god but to create a being that is your lobotomized slave…. I just dont see how it can end well

Of course, we also have the Kurzweil fanboys chiming in:

Our only hope is that we become AGI ourselves. Use the tech to upgrade ourselves.

But don’t worry, there are silent voices of reasons in the comments, too:

Honestly feel like these clowns fabricate the drama in order to over hype themselves

Gee, maybe …

no ,,, they’re understating the drama in order to seem rational & worthy of investment ,, they’re serious that the world is ending ,, unfortunately they think they have more time than they do so they’re not helping very much really

Yeah, never mind. I think I might need to lobotomize myself now after reading that thread.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Our only hope is that we become AGI ourselves.

But..... wait...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

introducing the human brain to utilitarianism is a lot like introducing a proof system to Falso

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have a business idea for him. Small batch alcohol produced by harvesting ethanol produced by this bacteria found in Aella’s teeth scrapings. Call it Mutella 1140, the official alcohol shot of rationalist orgies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sorry for that. It was funnier in my head.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i mean you managed fresh horror from Aella, that's not nothing

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh wow re-colonizing your mouth with a bacteria that continuously produces an antibiotic is a bad idea? Who could have seen this coming???

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

insane Timothy Treadwell voice ‘SCOOTER IS SHITTING HIMSELF’

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Did the Aella moratorium from r/sneerclub carry over here?

Because if not

for the record, im currently at ~70% that we're all dead in 10-15 years from AI. i've stopped saving for retirement, and have increased my spending and the amount of long-term health risks im taking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

rip aella girl. aella dead girl

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Is increasing the amount of long-term health risks code for showering even less?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

it's clear that the moon was right and we have it coming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same Aella Same, but moon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For the record, I'm currently at ~70% that we're all dead in 10-15 years from the moon getting mad at us. I've stopped saving for retirement, and have increased my spending towards a future moon mission to give it lots of pats and treats and tell it it's a good boy and we love it, please don't get mad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As a moonleftalonist, I have increased my spending towards nuking all space travel sites (not going well, apparently those things are expensive and really hard to find on ebay), as it is clear that the moon doesn't want our attention, it never asked for it, and never tried to visit us. Respect the moons privacy!

Our secondary plan is making a big sign saying 'we are here if you want to talk'.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

This article motivating and introducing the ThunderKittens language has, as its first illustration, a crying ancap wojak complaining about people using GPUs. I thought it was a bit silly; surely that's not an actual ancap position?

On Lobsters, one of the resident cryptofascists from the Suckless project decided to be indistinguishable from the meme. He doesn't seem to comprehend that I'm mocking his lack of gumption; unlike him, I actually got off my ass when I was younger and wrote a couple GPU drivers for ATI/AMD hardware. It's difficult but rewarding, a concept foreign to fascists.

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