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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th November 2026 (awful.systems)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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(I get the feeling we're close to this bubble's end.)

Anyways, 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 soo 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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[–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There is loads of stuff they didn't get right. The benefit of the narrative format is that any specific details they get blatantly wrong they can spin as just being part of the fictional narrative and not a deliberate prediction. They can also shrug off discredit by claiming that only their technical predictions were accurate, not their political predictions. In fact, as we've speculated recently on sneerclub, one move the boosters may make is blaming the bubble pop (and subsequent failure to produce AGI) on the Democrats winning, because obviously if the LLM companies had kept up their momentum just a few months longer surely they would have achieved recursive self improvement (and all the wondrous things they've promised that would follow).

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    They're gonna go full stabbed-in-the-back myth, aren't they?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    One way or another they will find some rationalization to explain away inaccuracy of both the doomers and boosters' predictions. Whether that is blaming the Democrats or sneerers or continually tacking on a few more years to the predicted doomsday date I can't guess for certain.

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