Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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.
(Decemberās finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Apparently we are part of the rising trend of AI denialism
The rise of AI denialism
Author Louis Rosenberg is āan engineer, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneurā according to his PR-stinking Wikipage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_B._Rosenberg. I am sure he is utterly impartial and fair with regards to AI.
i hereby propose a new metric for a popular publication, the epstein number (Ä), denoting the number of authors who took flights to epsteinās rape island. generally, credible publications should have
Ä=0. this one, after a very quick look, hasÄ=2, and also hosts sabine hossenfelder.Absolutely savage 10/10 no notes
āPlease stop talking about the bubble bursting, I havenāt handed off my bag yetā
itās some copium of tremendous potency to misidentify public sentiment (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/) for movement (ignore the āAI expertsā these are people surveyed at a certain machine learning conference, really could be substituted by 1000 clones of Sutskever)
We are three paragraphs and one subheading down before we hit an Ayn Rand quote. This clearly bodes well.
A couple paragraphs later weāre ignoring both the obvious philosophical discussion about creativity and the more immediate argument about why this technology is being forced on us so aggressively. As much as Iād love to rant about this I got distracted by the next bit talking about how micro expressions will let LLMs decode emotions and whatever. Iād love to know this guyās thoughts on that AI-powered phrenologist features a couple weeks ago.