Want to wade into the snowy 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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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. If youāre wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)
(EDIT: Changed ā29th Februaryā to ā1st Marchā - its not a leap year)


Jesus fucking christ I donāt think I will ever get over how fucking dogshit the fucking rationalists are at epistemology
ITāS CALLED A FUCKING MAPPING. āMAPā. AS IN NOT THE TERRITORY. ITāS IN THE NAME.
I mean the whole entire premise (not unique to this post, scootās gotten a lot of mileage out of this) is shoehorning LLMs into the predictive coding framework mostly on the grounds that they both use prediction terminology and deal with work units that they call neurons, with the added bonus that PC posits Bayesian inference is involved so itās obviously extra valid.
Queue a few thousand words of scoot wearing his science popularizer hat and just declaring the most vacuous shit imaginable with a straight face and a friendly teacherās casual authority.
Gwern once denied chaos theory in a way that Freeman Dyson called out in 1985, and as LessWrongers go he is a pretty clear thinker!
Thatās such a weird comment⦠like āworried about hurricanesā - the first idea is to pour literal oil on the water??? in what world does that scale??? then it concludes with āmaybe donāt build fragile buildings in hurricane areasā - lead with that you pillock
I feel Iām stepping into some long-forgotten debate on LW on alignment or something because thereās so much that doesnāt make sense in context
what the hecky
heās so offended heās been told heās not god!