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 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
As far as I can tell thereās absolutely no ideology in the original transformers paper, what a baffling way to describe it.
James Watson was also a cunt, but calling āMolecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acidā one of the founding texts of eugenicist ideology or whatever would be just dumb.
Some legitimate academic papers and essays have served as fuel for the AI hype and less legitimate follow-up research, but the clearest examples that comes to mind would be either āThe Bitter Lessonā essay or one of the āscaling lawā papers (I guess Chinchilla scaling in particular?), not āAttention is All You Needā. (Hyperscaling LLMs and the bubble fueling it is motivated by the idea that they can just throw more and more training data at bigger and bigger model). And I wouldnāt blame the author(s) for that alone.
this is a recurring problem with them/their posts; if you look across history you can see a continual pattern of āde jour grumpword a la $somecommunityā leak forth
I have on occasion asked them to try to make better posts. they donāt seem to give a fuck to do so tho
to the latter part of my comment: both my own and also other peoplesā criticisms just turn into a dead avenue. the applicable poster just ghosts that subthread while happily posting elsewhere
guess thereās no desire to do better!