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.
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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Any mild pushback to the claims of LLM companies sure bring out the promptfondlers on lobste.rs
https://lobste.rs/s/qcppwf/llms_don_t_do_formal_reasoning_is_huge
Plenty of agreement, but also a lot of āwhat is reasoning, reallyā and āhumans are dumb too, so itās not so surprisingly GenAIs are too!ā. This is sure a solid foundation for multi-billion startups, yes sirree.
itās kind of comforting that the current attitude towards generative AI in some tech spaces is āof course it canāt do cognition and it isnāt really good for anything, who said it wasā which is of course rich from the exact same posters who were breathlessly advertising for the tech as revolutionary both online and at work as recently as a couple of weeks ago (and a lot of them still hedge it with ābut it might be useful in the near futureā). the comfort is it feels like that attitude comes from deep embarrassment, like how the orange site started claiming it is and always was skeptical of crypto once the technology got irrevocably associated with scams and gambling and a lot of the easy money left
yeah, thereās a stench of desperation from the defenders
of course, as with crypto, there are uses (in the case of crypto , nothing legitimate). And it will be going to be a fallback for fondlers to point them out (for example, I believe that auto-generated audiobooks are viable, if theyāre generated from actual books)
I was watching a h0ffman stream the other day when someone happened to bring up autoplag in some context. didnāt see the asking context, but h0ffmanās answer warmed my heart. paraphrased: āwhat would you want to use that for? you wouldnāt steal a mod, why would you want to use a prompt? that stole from artists. fuck that shit.ā
(h0ffmanās one of the names in the demoscene, often plays sets at compos, does some of his own demos, etc)
these chuds lack self awareness and they never realise that by moving the goalposts on brain stuff they are admitting their own idiocy.