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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Redis guy AntiRez issues a heartfelt plea for the current AI funders to not crash and burn when the LLM hype machine implodes but to keep going to create AGI:

https://antirez.com/news/148

Neither HN nor lobste.rs are very impressed

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

Ultra-rare footage of orange site having a good take for once:

Top-notch sneer from lobsters' top comment, as well (as of this writing):

You want my opinion, I expect AntiRez' pleas to fall on deaf ears. The AI funders are only getting funded due to LLM hype - when that dies, investors' reason to throw money at them dies as well.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

lol @ the implication that chatbots will definitely invent magitech that will solve climate change, just burn another billion dollars in energy and silicon, please guys i don't want to go to prison for fraud and share cell with sbf and diddy

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

His grounds for notability are that he's a dev who back in the day made a useful thing that went on to become incredibly widely used. Like if he'd named redis salvatoredis instead he might have been a household name among swengs.

Also burning only a billion more would be a steal given some of the numbers thrown around.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In other news, Jazza's AI-generated cousin is back to continue pretending to be an actual artist. This time, its by actively denigrating the works of Studio Ghibli:

Unsurprisingly, he is getting raked over the coals by basically everyone. He's also having an utter meltdown in the replies.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do you think he knows that "inspired" and "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090" are not the same word?

Edit: oh no I read the replies.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By "better", he means "more fuckable".

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

And by "more fuckable", he means "refusing/unable to consent".

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In case you missed it, a couple sneers came out against AI from mainstream news outlets recently - CNN's put out an article titled "Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown", whilst the New York Times recently proclaimed "The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes".

You want my take on this development, I'm with Ed Zitron on this - this is a sign of an impending sea change. Looks like the bubble's finally nearing its end.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

LW: 23AndMe is for sale, maybe the babby-editing people might be interested in snapping them up?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MciRCEuNwctCBrT7i/23andme-potentially-for-sale-for-less-than-usd50m

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@gerikson @techtakes

Babby-edit.com: Give us your embryos for an upgrade. (Customers receive an Elon embryo regardless of what they want.)

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] slop_as_a_service@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

just remembered why I created an account here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jobs/hwWsGdU-vibe-coder-ai-engineer

become a vibe coder for a debt collection startup! but only if you're willing to pull 15+ hour days for 80k a year

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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