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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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
every popular scam eventually gets its Oprah moment, and now AIās joining the same prestigious ranks as faith healing and A Million Little Pieces:
and itās got everything you love! veiled threats to your job if the AI ārevolutionā does or doesnāt get its way!
woe is Sam, nobody understands the incredible stress heās under marketing the scam thatās making him rich as simultaneously incredibly dangerous but also absolutely essential
fuck I cannot wait for my mom to call me and regurgitate Samās words on āhow AI worksā and ask, panicked, if Iām fired or working for OpenAI or a cyborg yet
Iām truly surprised they didnāt cart Yud out for this shit
Self-proclaimed sexual sadist Yud is probably a sex scandal time bomb and really not ready for prime time. Plus itās not like he has anything of substance to add on top of Saltmanās alarmist bullshit, so it would just be reminding people how weird in a bad way people in this subculture tend to be.
thatās a very good point. now Iām wondering if not inviting Yud was a savvy move on Oprahās part or if it was something Altman and the other money behind this TV special insisted on. given how crafted the guest list for this thing is, Iām leaning toward the latter
I think if you want to promote something you donāt invite the longwinded nerdy person. Donāt think a verbal blog post would do well on tv. I mean, I would also suck horribly if I was on tv, and would prob help make the subject im arguing for less popular.
You probably are, if not by choice.
unironically part of why I am so fucking mad that reCaptcha ever became as big as it did. the various ways entities like cloudflare and google have forcefully inserted themselves into humanityās daily lives, acting as rent-extracting bridgetroll with heavy āOr Elseā clubs, incenses me to a degree that can leave me speechless
in this particular case, because reCaptcha is effectively outsourced dataset labelling, with the labeller (you, the end user, having to click through the stupid shit) not being paid. and theyāll charge high-count users for the privilege. it is so, so fucking insulting and abusive.
I always half-ass my captcha and try to pass in as many false answers as possible, because Iām a
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billy gās been going for years with bad takes on those three things (to the point that the gates foundation have actually been a problem, gatekeeping financing unless recipients acquiesce to using those funds the way the foundation wants it to be used (yeah, aid funds with instructions and limitationsā¦)), but now there can be āAIā to assist with the issue
maybe the ārevolutionā can help by paying the people that are currently doing dataset curation for them a living wage? Iām sure thatās what billy g meant, right? right?
Look, where are you going to get your experts if you canāt trust Jeffrey Epsteinās Rolodex?
I mean, I have glasses and wear a wristwatch so by the standard definitions I qualify as a cyborg in all aspects but the aesthetic.
No wristwatch, but I have glasses and without electricity I stop breathing. (While asleep.)
So, yeah, cyborg.
Yud would jump on a couch.
I didnāt think she could top John of God, but here we are.