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.

    • imadabouzu@awful.systems
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      Itā€™s the same story as has ever been. ā€œSmart Peopleā€'s position on anything is often informed by their current economic relationship wrt to the things they care about. And maybe even Yud isnā€™t super happy about his profession being co-opted. What scraps will he have if his own delusions became true about GPT zombies replacing ā€œauthentic voicesā€?

      No one is immune to seeing a better take when itā€™s their shit on the line, and no is immune from being in a bubble without stake.

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        Iā€™ve read enough of the Yudsterā€™s work to recognize that he is particularly vulnerable to being replaced by a small shell script that outputs a massive volume of text that says very little of substance, and what little there is is weirdly racist.

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          You are mistaken in my reasoning, Iā€™m saying a person with a well paid university position (which gives him access to money and the university library, which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesnā€™t libgen or equivs them) should understand that a lot of training material is indeed not free. This being in addition to the university paying him for his own research, and him prob being pretty annoyed if he was replaced with an iSandberg bot and now was homeless. (This is in addition to what Yud said).

          Turns out making papers about replacing the earth with fruit is something Anders-GPT can do perfectly well on its own.

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            which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesnā€™t libgen or equivs them

            wrong assumption tbh. the open-access fight is happening because the publisher cartels are extortionate and access is extremely uneven. I (personally/directly) know more than a few people presently in academia who roll libgen on a daily basis because it is easier/quicker/the only option/the only actually working option for the things they need

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              itā€™s often easier to pirate the published version of your own paper than to access it by official means

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              Fair enough, my bad. No idea it had gotten that bad. But still, I wasnā€™t intending to rag on libgen, just his idea that these things (which also includes education) are free already.

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                if you want to get really mad, shibboleth ā€œelsevierā€. itā€™ll be a speedrun of learning some of the worst of whatā€™s fucked atm