Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
New Yorker article on Sam Altman dropped. Aaron Swartz apparently called him a sociopath. The article itself also had wat looked like an animated AI generated image of Altman so here is the archive.is link (if you can get the latter to load, I was having troubles).
āNew interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.ā
My CEO who is a known hype-man is a massive liar? shock horror
seriously, anyone who listens to Scam Altman these days is an idiot
:surprised-pikachu:
In 2024 Ozy Brennan was indignant about Nonlinear Fund, the āincubator of AI-safety meta-charitiesā which lived as global nomads, hired a live-in personal assistant, asked her to smuggle drugs across borders for them, let a kind-of-colleague take her to bed, then did not pay her regularly and in full.
The correct number of times for the word āyachtingā to occur in a description of an effective altruist job is zero. I might make an exception if itās prefaced with āconvincing people to donate to effective charities instead of spending money on.ā
Trace popped up in the comments:
Inasmuch as EA follows your preferences, I suspect it will either fail as a subculture or deserve to fail. You present a vision of a subculture with little room for grace or goodwill, a space where everyone is constantly evaluating each other and trying to decide: are you worthy to stand in our presence? Do you belong in our hallowed, select group? Which skeletons are in your closet? Where are your character flaws? What should we know, what should we see, that allows us to exclude you?
Ozy stands with us on this one buddy.
i love seeing tracing pop up! a true heel to toe bootlicker incapable of seeing himself as anything but the MOST independent thinker
a space where everyone is constantly evaluating each other and trying to decide: are you worthy to stand in our presence? Do you belong in our hallowed, select group?
Itās not that already?
That part of Traceās response was odd because one of Brennanās themes was āwe should have less cults of personality and more peers working together.ā That seems naive but at least Brennan agrees that cults of personality are bad and Nonlinear Fund needed to be fired into the sun.
Which skeletons are in your closet?
Iām sure you already have lists of those and are ready to publish them Trace.
Starting this Stubsack off, Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAIās Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.
Theyāve already bombed commercial data centres before, so Iām inclined to believe this isnāt an empty threat.
Waiting for Yud to provide his whole-chested support for IRGC any second
aside from everything else, as posted by ed zitron previously i doubt that anything is really getting built there
