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.
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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 so 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. Sorry this wasnāt up earlier, I couldnāt connect to awful.)
new polemics.md on luigi
Attempting to credit Luigiās actions to AI millenarianism putting him in a weird headspace almost feels like stolen valor.
Still, if thatās where his mental health defence is going to hinge on then I guess itās relevant.
That IQ works like mana points is both a widespread misconception and a red flag that youāre far more ignorant than you let on.
āThe robot god will be in the 99.9999999999999999999999999999th percentile for intelligenceā just doesnāt have the same ring to it.
i mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism
i saw TPOTs on Twitter going āshit I know himā
If the argument is that too much rationaltruism fried his brain then fine I guess.
Otherwise I donāt think United Healthcare doing AI assisted fraud falls into any rationalist framework of doom, and also those people are allergic to direct action.
Also the article is already setting the bar very high by using the Zizians, a sect thatās almost completely predicated on semi-obsure rationalist lore, as their first point of reference for rationalism gone wild.