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 cutānāpaste it into its own post, 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.
it always feels like someoneās walking on my grave when my friends or coworkers bring up Rationalist shit, and itās been happening increasingly often
about 2y back, one of my (ML, datascience) friends asked me āso what do you think about the EA thingā while we were on a hike (!)
Iād been peripherally aware of some of it but not the full picture, but my stance of the time bears out learning more about them
worried about when I hear the mention in a bar though. and it is near guaranteed to happen around these parts sometime, even if just because thereās some things that ZA has a timelag on
at least we now have Sam Bankman-Fried to point to
Sam Barsman-Unfreed