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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Mark WAIhlberg open to AI likeness carrying on his screen legacy | Межа in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] 8 points 1 week ago

My favorite part about this is that they say 'needlessly.'

Like, they're completely nuts and believe Claude might have feelings. But they're not content to just be insane in that way, they have to also be ok with harming it as long as it's not needless.

God these fuckers

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    What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    For a while it looked like devs would resist the slop

    I don't think I ever saw this. The only indication would have been a major dev org like the FSF, OSI, SFC or somebody hitting Microsoft with a really aggressive lawsuit over OpenAI. They would have had a slam dunk and it would have set the tone for the way the rest of the world reacted, I think.

    Instead it was just 'wow cool toy.' That was when I realized the real politics of Foss wasn't just a couple of bad actors like Eric Raymond but a full on rot.

    I am thinking about leaving tech altogether.

    I wish I had a plan B, but I've devoted my life to being a software engineer and have no idea what else I could do .

    It is pretty depressing.

    Yeah. I've sort of resigned to my world being ruined and everything I ever worked on stolen and sold back to my bosses for the rest of my career.

    I just wish there were some way to inflict some fraction of this pain on the people responsible, the people who go to work every day to ruin mine.

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    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th October 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
    Jacob Coxon’s old archived tweets in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think it's because they think they're the elite of society who will ride out climate change and don't give a shit if they kill three billion people as long as those people are mostly in the global south because they're racist too.

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    JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react (www.reddit.com)
     

    I haven't read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

    I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

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    SlateScott talking race and IQ: very cool and truth seeking. Revealing SlateScott's powerword: what's the public interest in that? (www.lesswrong.com)
     

    The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: discussion on reddit.

    My favorite section, talking about how people are mad that be brought up Scott's notorious race stuff™️:

    CM: That's great. That's a valid position. There are other valid positions where people say, we need to not go so close to that, because it's dangerous and there's a slippery slope. The irony of this whole situation is that some people who feel that I should not have gone there, who think I should not explore the length and breadth of that situation, are the people who think you should always go there.

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    Guess who's having a big mad about Journalism again! (www.astralcodexten.com)
     

    Hounding the president of Harvard out of a job because you think she's a DEI hire is one thing, but going after a Billionaire's wife? How dare these journalists! What big bullies.

    Bonus downplaying of EA's faults. He of course phrases the Bostrom affair as someone being "accused" of sending a racist email, as if there were any question as to who sent it, or if it was racist. And acts like it's not just the cherry on top of a lifetime of Bostrom's work.

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    In which Scott (other Scott) can't imagine why committing a crime would lead him to be treated (gasp) like a criminal (scottaaronson.blog)
     

    Someone posted this on ssc with a warning about talking to cops, but really just marvel at what's going on here.

    Aaronson manages to turn a story where he is briefly arrested for a theft (which he did commit on video!) into paragraphs and paragraphs of indulging in his persecution fantasies.

    Zero empathy on display for the people he stole from, the people just doing their jobs, or reflection on the fact that it wasn't a simple little mistake anyone could make but rather... a fairly weird move? Do people usually put change in cups?

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