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, 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.
Donāt forget to read OPs ātakeā on the Halting Problem.
I was mentally prepared to get irrationally angry, but fortunately this is such incoherent word salad that itās not even wrong.
Amazing that when there is pushback against his ideas he starts to ad hominem call people professors.
(there was this talk/article about how to recognize a crank I forgot the link/source but iirc āreacting badly to pushbackā and āalways trying to solve the biggest open problems firstsā are two things on the list).
I need a shorter name for the whole genre of person thatās on way too many uppers and wonāt stop using ChatGPT all night to make all their decisions, cause we keep running into them and for some reason all of them are obsessed with CS woo
maybe weāre really just witnessing what happens when your ānootropicā habit gets out of hand and youāre still in debt from gambling on crypto, so you get high as shit and convince yourself youāre a genius because whenever you read the tea leaves they tell you exactly what you expected to hear. this is, unfortunately, how cults tend to form.
āPresumably-outsourced non-thinkerā but unfortunately itās not as snappy as promptfans and promptfondlers
Prompt-deciduous?
They are having a delirium supported by ML, so Promptlerius?
At least they get called on being a word salad merchant in that sub, the response in r/openai is basically rapturous.
Like OP, I also learned about Gƶdelās incompleteness theorems and was struck with a sense of profundity despite not having the mathematical grounding to come to any meaningful conclusions from this. Unlike OP, I donāt ramble about the things I donāt really understand.
(I do, however, ramble about protein structure and biochemistry, which is very cool, and also my jam)