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.
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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.)
Enjoy this masterful account of successful human-ing by a LWer
Surely this suave persuasiveness will soon enable the faithful to convince the unwashed masses of the One True Way
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ywewgSmXmhBvq3EC2/drifting
Amazing bit, you read through the first section and itās like, okay, I mean, maybe not really insightful but at least not dumb, and then they hit you with da
Now, as I understand it this is literally the definition of a context window.
No but you see that doesnāt make sense since the chatbox is conscious and very smart
āChatGPT, explain to me why women avoid me like the plagueā
Her account is just another reminder that ā apart from race science ā nothing goes better together with rationalism than social cluelessness.
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