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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[–] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

So the news is now filled with stories about how AI will take over and the Ai companies might lose control of it gets smarter and at least one employee quit because it might kill us all. You know what I seem to be missing?

Actual employees doing sabotage. That is a bit odd right? They think Altman doesnt care about safety, but nobody has tried to wipe the backups. And we know they dont think that much about security.

And it isnt like sysadmins messed with systems in the past over lesser disputes.

Not even a "im turning whistleblower, here are all the internal chatlogs and documents of the employees and management".

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I'm reminded of Yudkowsky's take that AI is totally going to kill us all and we should treat this seriously enough to bomb foreign datacenters if we think they're involved in AI development, but that doesn't mean that you should try to bomb local datacenters involved in AI development work. Please don't think about what you as an individual should do about the problems facing the world; you're just an NPC after all.

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  • [–] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Yud isn't necessarily inconsistent here: he really really wants the robot god to become real so it can invent the blowjob machine and win utilitarianism, but he only trusts people he's met personally to do it, and certainly not those shifty celestials.

    Please don’t think about what you as an individual should do about the problems facing the world; you’re just an NPC after all.

    Or as the AI2027 blog put it:

    We may only have 2 years left before humanity’s fate is sealed!

    Despite the urgency, please do not pursue extreme uncooperative actions. If something seems very bad on common-sense ethical views, don’t do it.

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