Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024 - eviltoast

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      14Ā·
      8 months ago

      I suffer from monkey mind, chronic imposter syndrome, and the hedonic treadmill. A few friends have confided that they have the same issue too. Perhaps you can relate as well. To improve my mental well-being, I meditate, write morning pages, and keep a gratitude journal. However, as helpful as these techniques are, they primarily rely on introspection. What was missing was an external perspectiveā€”someone who could ask follow-up questions, challenge my assumptions, and help untangle my thoughts and emotions.

      please, for the love of fuck, see a real therapist for the ADHD and depression (and the hedonic treadmill? which just seems to be your mood regulating back to normal after bad shit happens?) youā€™re desperately trying to cloak behind pseudopsychological terminology

      Enter ChatGPT. Over the past year, Iā€™ve been using it as my therapist and coach. Itā€™s been surprisingly helpful and meets all the needs above, plus itā€™s available 24/7. And I donā€™t have to worry about being judged (hopefully our AI overlords will be benevolent!) So far, every ā€œsessionā€ has been insightful and I almost always leave with a lighter heart.

      thereā€™s so much to unpack in ā€œI donā€™t have to worry about being judged, haha hopefully the AI gods wonā€™t hate me hahaā€ alone

      System Prompt: You are Tara, an empathetic, insightful, and supportive coach who helps people deal with challenges and celebrate achievements.

      You have academic and industry expertise to brainstorm product ideas, draft engineering designs, and suggest scientific solutions.

      but what good is a therapist if it canā€™t help you hustle and grind! certainly stealing ideas from a magic 8 ball will help you with your chronic imposter syndrome!

      • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
        13Ā·
        8 months ago

        You have academic and industry expertise to brainstorm product ideas, draft engineering designs, and suggest scientific solutions.

        If you need an LLM to brainstorm product ideas then maybe itā€™s not ā€œimpostor syndromeā€, youā€™re just actually fucking bad at this.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        9Ā·
        8 months ago

        fucking hell I just clicked to their about page

        Hi, Iā€™m Eugene Yan. I design, build, and operate machine learning systems that serve customers at scale. I also write and speak about ML, RecSys, LLMs, and engineering.

        Iā€™m currently a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon where I focus on helping customers read more. Here, I built systems including real-time retrieval, bandit-based ranking, and recsys in search (see RecSys 2022 keynote). More recently, Iā€™m exploring how LLMs can help us serve customers better.

        Outside of work, I share the ghost knowledge of applying ML via ā€¦

        I guess thereā€™s the minor upside that the people making the world worse are all so proudly self-identifying? removes the need to guess

        • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
          10Ā·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, itā€™ll make it easy to identify them for re-education after the revolutionā€¦

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        8Ā·
        8 months ago

        System Prompt: You are Tara, an empathetic, insightful, and supportive coach who helps people deal with challenges and celebrate achievements.

        You have academic and industry expertise to brainstorm product ideas, draft engineering designs, and suggest scientific solutions.

        but what good is a therapist if it canā€™t help you hustle and grind! certainly stealing ideas from a magic 8 ball will help you with your chronic imposter syndrome!

        you know, that shit reads exactly like the affirmations scenes in severance, and that shit was made to be as creepy as it was

        itā€™s an extremely sad testament to a myriad set of societal failures that this person is finding depth in the text of a soulless sample-glitching regurgitation cloner thatā€™s using inspiro-copy from however many self-help websites as the pattern for this. like, this is some fucking suckerpunch-level suck for shit to be this bad for that person