Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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.
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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.
@ai_shame RTād a good sneer in the wild recently:
Bonus: Eliezer, of all people, also sneered at the TESCREAL twat:
Harry Potter and the Surprisingly Good Take
Harry Potter and the Broken Clock
Itās the same story as has ever been. āSmart Peopleā's position on anything is often informed by their current economic relationship wrt to the things they care about. And maybe even Yud isnāt super happy about his profession being co-opted. What scraps will he have if his own delusions became true about GPT zombies replacing āauthentic voicesā?
No one is immune to seeing a better take when itās their shit on the line, and no is immune from being in a bubble without stake.
Iāve read enough of the Yudsterās work to recognize that he is particularly vulnerable to being replaced by a small shell script that outputs a massive volume of text that says very little of substance, and what little there is is weirdly racist.
thatās a linkedin-level take
Somebody got all his books from libgen and it shows.
hey no shaming libgen, that shit exists for good reason
You are mistaken in my reasoning, Iām saying a person with a well paid university position (which gives him access to money and the university library, which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesnāt libgen or equivs them) should understand that a lot of training material is indeed not free. This being in addition to the university paying him for his own research, and him prob being pretty annoyed if he was replaced with an iSandberg bot and now was homeless. (This is in addition to what Yud said).
Turns out making papers about replacing the earth with fruit is something Anders-GPT can do perfectly well on its own.
wrong assumption tbh. the open-access fight is happening because the publisher cartels are extortionate and access is extremely uneven. I (personally/directly) know more than a few people presently in academia who roll libgen on a daily basis because it is easier/quicker/the only option/the only actually working option for the things they need
itās often easier to pirate the published version of your own paper than to access it by official means
Fair enough, my bad. No idea it had gotten that bad. But still, I wasnāt intending to rag on libgen, just his idea that these things (which also includes education) are free already.
if you want to get really mad, shibboleth āelsevierā. itāll be a speedrun of learning some of the worst of whatās fucked atm