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 this.)
Expect the āAI safetyā weenuses to have a giant freakout too.
Whatās the over-under on how many of them voted for Trump lol
Given the libertarian fixation, probably a solid percentage of them. And even the ones that didnāt vote for Trump often push or at least support various mixes of āgrey-tribeā, āpolitics is spidersā, ācenter leftā, etc. kind of libertarian centrist thinking where they either avoided āpoliticalā discussion on lesswrong or the EA forums (and implicitly accepted libertarian assumptions without argument) or they encouraged āreaching across the aisleā or āavoiding polarized discourseā or otherwise normalized Trump and the alt-right.
Like looking at Scottās recent posts on ACX, he is absolutely refusing responsibility for his role in the alt-right pipeline with every excuse he can pull out of his ass.
Of course, the heretics who have gone full e/acc absolutely love these sorts of āpolicyā choices, so this actually makes them more in favor of Trump.
I have not kept up but Scott did write an anti trump article again before the election. So we really cant blame them /s
Reminds me of how Scott Adams hedged in 2016 with all sorts of disclaimers that he wasnāt really a Trump supporter, he was just impressed by a āmaster persuader.ā Now look at the guy.
His blog was wild. Remains sad that the first part of the āDANGER DO NOT READ!!! I will hypnotize you into having the best orgasms of your lifeā blog series was not properly archived.
The Repubs more-or-less renamed themselves Team Skynet with this open attempt to maximise AIās harms, I absolutely think theyāre McFucking Losing Itā¢ right now.