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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] 7 points 21 hours ago (23 children)

wtf is deal of that segyges person. now they're convinced that openai will solve room temperature superconductors in silico real soon, because altman vagueposted about it

and this all based on lk-99 fraud case, nevermind that there's no high temperature superconductivity theory, or how prohibitively computationally expensive computational chemistry is, and i guess it's not accurate enough anyway, this all with people that do computational chemistry coming in their thread trying to explain this, then posts this

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  • [–] 10 points 20 hours ago (18 children)

    Somehow word association will beat density functional theory to the punch for mapping out theoretical materials, lol. Alright.

    I'll believe that when pigs fly.

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  • [–] 11 points 20 hours ago (17 children)

    arguably it's stupider than that

    and this doesn't even go into whether pallet of lean spaghetti is in any way insightful, or does it explain anything, or does any of these things manmade proofs do

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  • [–] 10 points 19 hours ago (15 children)

    You'll forgive me, I'm neither lobotmised nor a mathematician.

    The poster wants to slop into existance a language for stacking logical statements on top of each other and testing/prooving truthiness but the statements are what? Physics rules?

    And once you have this um magic world simulator from first principles (since it would have to be, because the thing about science is we need to do the experiments since we don't know how things work fully) it will somehow stumble onto RTPSC materials?

    K

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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    i'll also note that assembly of reply guys decided that room temperature superconductors will magically solve energy requirements of silicon-based chips (this is not how any of this works)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Once we have superconductors, all computation will immediately switch to relay-based logic

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  • [–] 1 point 24 minutes ago

    cmos logic still beats it, because main source of heat are switching losses (all these gate + parasitic capacitances being charged and discharged, and some related phenomena). relays store more energy, and that makes situation worse, even if you make them as MEMS

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  • [–] 12 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

    that's just "machine god will figure out relativity from three video frames" in another form

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago* (9 children)

    Good God. Sometimes I wonder how small the population that understands all these references and knows all this deep lore and history is. How few people really understand the true nature of this bunch of people and how their ideas have ruined so much. When I go to conferences I get to have 4 hour conversations over beer with astrobiologists explaining how ideas from a blog in 2009 started showing up uncited in their literature 8 years later (when late undergrads who read a blog post start writing papers during their PhDs) and have since completely fucked whole subfields. They are flabbergasted at first, but then they see it, and see the damage done. So few people actually see this.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    It was kinda wild studying physics while this was starting.

    People were getting all these starry-eyed ideas while anyone actually doing well was realising that the future is going to look a lot like the present because god hates us and we're not allowed nice things.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (6 children)

    In the TESCREAL lore iceberg, "Aella Sankey chart" is above the waterline.

    • Existence of HPMoR
    • Existence of Zizians
    • Aella Sankey chart
    • Aella not showering

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    • Topher Brennan leaks Siskind emails

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    • "AI datacenter water usage is fine actually" Substack

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    • Cremieux's alleged old Reddit handle

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    • Scott Aaronson anti-feminist breakdown
    • Scott Aaronson goes full Zionist

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    • Glowfic

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    • su3su2u1 review of HPMoR

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    • Robot God deduces general relativity in three frames with the power of Bayes

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    • Scott Aaronson makes airport cops sympathetic

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    • TracingWoodgrains attempted hatchet job against David Gerard

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    • Eliezer Yudkowsky is That Guy when recommending scifi books
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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Aella Sankey chart

    I'm really being tested on my liberation and sex positive values here. Gosh that's a very weird and kinda gross thing to do.

    What motivates someone to chart their fetish fulfillment?

    Well whatever. I hope people had fun, seems like it must have been very scheduled and regimented though...

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 child)

    wtf is deal of that segyges person

    He does worthless little-birthday-boy AI boosting while pretending to be the serious face of bluesky AI bootlicking fair and balanced anti-anti-AI bluesky.

    Occasionally has decent sneer content, though it has a much more evident muh datacenters tint these days. Writer of the siskind email explainer.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    I keep free-associating this idiot with eigenrobot and maybe that’s unfair to them. They’re insufferable and smug and always confidently wrong, but maybe they’re not also a huge racist.

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  • [–] 5 points 18 hours ago

    they also have a blog where they blog about how unfair are the anti-ai terrible people and. among other things, why the luddites were the terrible, no good, absolutely not worthy of interest reactionary bunch who got what they deserved.

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