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 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.
A few months ago I was looking into Lojban and trying to figure out how I would translate āchargeā (as in, āmy laptop is chargingā) and the best I could come up with is āpinxe lo dikcaā (ādrink electricityā)
Soā¦ if you think LLMs donāt drink, thatās your imagination, not mine.
My parents said that the car was āthirstyā if the gas tank was nearly empty, therefore gas cars are sentient and electric vehicles are murder, checkmate atheists
That was in the replies to this, which Yud retweeted:
Hats off to Isaac Asimov for correctly predicting exactly this 75 years ago in I, Robot: Some people wonāt accept anything that doesnāt eat, drink, and eventually die as being sentient.
Um, well, actually, mortality was a precondition of humanity, not of sentience, and that was in āThe Bicentennial Manā, not I, Robot. Itās also presented textually as correctā¦
In the I, Robot story collection, Stephen Byerley eats, drinks and dies, and none of this is proof that he was human and not a robot.
Why are techbros such shit at Lojban? Itās a recurring and silly pattern. Two minutes with a dictionary tells me that there is
{seldikca}for being charged like a capacitor and{nenzengau}for charging like a rechargeable battery.
Not a sneer, just a feelsbadman.jpg b.c. I know peeps who have been sucked into this āits all Joever.png mentalityā, (myself included for various we live in hell reasons, honestly I never recovered after my cousin explained to me what nukes were while playing in the sandbox at 3)
The sneerworthy content comes later:
1st) Rats never fail to impress with appeal to authority fallacy, but 2nd) the authority in question is max totally unbiased not a member of the extinction cult and definitely not pushing crank theories for decades fuckinā tegmark roflmaou
āYou know, we just had a little baby, and I keep asking myselfā¦ how old is he even gonna get?ā
Tegmark, you absolute fucking wanker. If you actually believe your eschatological x-risk nonsense and still produced a child despite being convinced that heās going to be paperclipped in a few years, youāre a sadistic egomaniacal piece of shit. And if you donāt believe it and just lie for the PR, knowingly leading people into depression and anxiety, youāre also a sadistic egomaniacal piece of shit.
Truly I say unto you , it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is to convince a 57 year old man who thinks heās still pulling off that leather jacket to wear a condom. (Tegmark 19:24, KJ Version)
