Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā 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.
Presented without comment: this utter crankery about hacking the Matrix (HN)
Among the things theyāve already tried are torture, touching grass, and declining all cookies:
This idiocy has been patiently submitted 3 times before but finally broke containment
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theseedsofscience.org
Time to create a big mindfuck for the Rationalists. First have an active account on EA/LW and actively participate. Post this research as a talking point. Then leave one message ālol just to be sure: I no longer consent to being in a simulationā. And then never touch that account + any related accounts ever again.
Thereās a great sneer-novel about simulationists called If This Book Exists, Youāre in the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin.
The villains of the story are a group of TESCREAL stand-ins who style themselves as the āSimmurai.ā They have the goal of breaking the āsimulationā just the same as the authors of the (hilarious) paper youāve shared. They have a very similar tone, which to my ears sounds like a serial killer winding themselves up to do the deed. The big twist is that the Simmurai have been unwittingly suborned by a Lovecraftian horror that has bent their plan to its own ends. The only thing standing in their way is a small group of working class millenials from Ohio, who get tangled up in the story because they once shot up some space drugs in a Dennyās parking lot and can therefore see the true nature of the universe (maybe).
Of course one of the first things they try is torture, because āmaybe the simulationists arenāt as big of bastards as we areā is a reasonable hypothesis to test and not a reason to be locked up.
Also since weāre messing with absurd thought experiments, Iād like to propose that when they declined consent the simulationists could actually just disable the part of that agent with a subjective personal experience, making them a P-zombie in the David Chalmers tradition. As such, they were no longer part of the simulation without adversely affecting any other aspect of it.
Is this stupid? Obviously, but letās be honest: itās probably less stupid than at least half of the actual paper.
In another episode of āanyone can upload a PDF and call it a paper mate, they donāt even checkāā¦
What the hell is āSeeds of Scienceā? Is that some weird arxiv thingy that also gives you a logo at the top?
I wanted to sneer at this, but it very quickly outgrew a Stubsack comment, so, enjoy, this is what you made me do
https://awful.systems/post/2059051