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 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting thisā¦)
The fact this commenter doesnāt mention the absolute fuckton of machining videos on Youtube tells me theyāre just talking out of their ass.
(not that forcing those into LLM slop would help but a hypothetical AGI would learn a lot)
Also
Dario is delusional. We donāt even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF
Iāve got to acknowledge the sheer guts it takes to look at arguably the most predictable consequence of the cyberpunk dystopia youāre building and say ānah that wonāt happen because reasons.ā
@gerikson Iād like to see him automating bed-turning a frail 90 year old in a nursing home so she doesnāt get bed sores (ulcersāopen wounds from lying on a creased sheet or just in the same position for too long). A 90yo with cognitive impairment whoās scared of robots.
@cstross @gerikson This doesnāt sound promising: āA growing body of evidence is finding that robots tend to end up creating more work for caregiversā
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065135/japan-automating-eldercare-robots/
Thatās legitimately chilling. I guess just like quality of art and writing is too hard to quantify against āefficiencyā and āproductivityā so is quality of care. The slow AIs are literally optimizing humans out of the economy before our eyes and the people who were most afraid of being turned into paperclips are the ones leading the goddamn charge.
amazement at chatbots comes from demographic that did not binge watch how itās made in middle school