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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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.)
Iāve been seeing some people (not here, Iāve been taking a break) saying that we shouldnāt be mean to clankers by bringing up Kantās position on being nice to animals. Well. Fuck all that.
animals are like sentient beings yāknow, a clanker is aā¦ matrix or a bunch of matrices or something
Hey, youāre selling them short: there are also ReLU and softmax activation functions thrown around here and there. Clankers arenāt just linear transformations! /j
Iāve actually been thinking about this recently. Not whether we should be mean, but how mean we can be. Iāll post the full essay soon; Iām still proofreading. Hereās a taste with irrelevancies elided:
nice. this would probably make a rokoās basilisk believer uncomfortable and i like that