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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 April 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 6 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

counterpoint: it gives openai more money

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

not necessarily/could be offset? openai is still in that "we'll set fire to money to make ourselves look good" stage of VC dreamery; find entities operating on credits, slap there

but possibly even in the case where it's still straight transactional, it might be a net negative for them: revenue, actual usage, and still no meaningful shift on their product becoming good. it'll just make them look even worse

the bigger problem (to which this suggestion would most certainly contribute things getting worse) is that they're still burning other important resources. I don't really have a good/clever proposal to this which isn't something like "well, burn their DCs to the fucking ground" (or other more creative forms of invasive service interruption)

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they will burn through that money pretty quickly and without turning profit, however this can contribute to one of their ratfucked metrics to go up, which could hype up some segment of stonk market. because now they're fueled by hype and vc money, any new thing that would sustain that hype would be a bad thing (adoption here, kinda, at least as seen through excel)

i agree, 120mm mortar is much cheaper, faster, more irreversible, but openai going bankrupt and forced to sell their kit at least would generate less waste

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

forced to sell their kit at least would generate less waste

and a net positive in terms of human happiness