(The spooks shall soon be upon us.)

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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (9 children)

When Yud compared himself to Jesus, is the "giant rich organization" in Yud's tweet Anthropic or OpenAI or SpaceX or Google?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    I think it's Coefficient Giving (née Open Philanthropy). Yud has made negative comments about them in the past, especially after Moskovitz tried to distance themselves from rationalism.

    EDIT: Citation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    He seems ticked off at Coefficient Giving, but are they "a giant rich organization that stole some of my ideas, ignored everything I said about what not to do, and are going around telling people I made them do it"? (Its not stealing your ideas if they cite you Yud, they just draw different conclusions).

    Yud has said he got bored with LessWrong, and he does not like Coefficient Giving, Anthropic, OpenAI, or the Zizians, so is he satisfied with any group that adores his ideas?

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  • Its not stealing your ideas if they cite you Yud, they just draw different conclusions

    One of the many issues autodidacts face is that they never have to deal with undergrads sitting in a room with them for hours listening to them explain things in exhaustive detail and then still somehow spend their final writing assignment completely missing the goddamn point.

    It builds character, I assume.

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