Just two weeks tilā Halloween now.
Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll 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 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 soo 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.)
LWās contribution to Spooky Month is, unsurprisingly, a horror story about chatbots taking over the world. I have so many thoughts. Choice sneer, doesnāt spoil anything: The problem with dictators is not āthe fact that the dictator might, and often will, abuse his powerā, you high-modernist twit, the problem with dictators is that they necessarily have a personal individual opinion which is not sufficiently flexible to accommodate the inevitable diversity of their subjects.
If this was satire, and the entire point was to bait LWāers and me into taking it seriously, then well done. But I get the feeling that the authorās not really joking much.
live-reading notes (spoilers, of course)
*gasp* cracked pavement
*faints* minorities
We created god, and it thinks exactly like a SV tech worker commuting to work.
I stopped reading after the picket line, this is too boring. Does it ever bother to explain why the economy keeps chugging along, people still go to their old jobs, and money still works? Hasnāt finance basically collapsed? I really canāt go on if this isnāt addressed, this is too annoying.
Prime intellect! There are dozens of us!
Itās more surprising to me that lesswrongers either havenāt, or have seemingly taken nothing away from it
e: on second thought, they might hate it because it is too ādeathistā or whatever
Maybe the very first sentence of your story shouldnāt have me stopping to work out whether you meant January or August.
Damn that AI is verbose and boring, a high āthis AI takeover could have been a skeetā.
(Also doubt a lot of people would notice as in my exp where a computer has an unexpected popup the first thing people do is try to close that thing with as little reading as possible. (Yes, parents, the message you kept ignoring for 2 weeks, which you didnāt tell me about was the operating system telling you the computer was having trouble, I canāt help you fix the problem after it totally stops working)).
Turns out slop prose isnāt any less galling after you put it in quotation marks.