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 youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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    See, I actually donā€™t hate the idea of engineering and automating away parts of work. Work, almost by definition, sucks. If it didnā€™t suck we wouldnā€™t think of it as ā€œwork.ā€

    But the current model of AI is less trying to free humanity from work than it is freeing work from humanity. Take the important business of making the line go up away from the grubby hands of people who need things like ā€œfoodā€ and ā€œhealthcareā€ as a necessary precondition for working, to say nothing of their desires for ā€œdignityā€ or ā€œrespectā€. Even creative and artistic work that gets underpaid in exchange for being something people can be innately passionate about can be taken away from those people and fed a diet of raw electricity and compute.

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      Yea, thereā€™s a lot of work from which itā€™s quite worthwhile to free humanity. Itā€™s just that an AI company having that as its tagline and full contents of its social media bio reads with a very particular anime villain cadence. Makes me think of Seymour Guado in Final Fantasy X vowing to ā€œfree the world of its sorrowā€.,

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            Iā€™ve been strategically misdirecting summoners for years trying to find a way to take down the big tech maesters but I only have so many fiends.

            alright Iā€™m gonna replay FFX now Iā€™ll see you all in a month.

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              This is just an alternative universe spira where the maesters are the ones peddling forbidden machina.