Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 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 cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    It got submitted to lobste.rs too and there are some insane takes there too

    https://lobste.rs/s/ph5o0a/openai_gpt_4o

    this model has lower latency, and they’ve priced it at half of the previous model’s price, despite it having comparable or better performance. If this is not a dumping price,[…]

    Yeah it’s totes more efficient, it’s not like Altman/MSFT are desperate to goose subscriber numbers

    I’ve seen first-hand how it helps non-programmers write programs to solve their problems (with “bad” code, but bad code is still empowering people), and I think that’s important given that software has been eating the world.

    Couldn’t the thousands of people now free from mundane work, work together now on solving climate issues or issues that require physical human labor?

    if LLMs/AI can run byrocracies (and whole countries) more efficiently, there are potential energy savings there too.