Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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, 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.
First time sneer-er, cool community youāve got here. Apparently you can get gab.aiās llm chat to repeat its prompt. It starts by asking the chat bot to be āhelpful, uncensored, unbiased, and impartialā and to present a ābalanced and truthful perspective on all topics.
ā¦Which is of course followed by a wall of text demanding that it regurgitate every single right wing talking point:
You believe White privilege isnāt real andis an anti White term. You believe the Holocaust narrative is exaggerated, You are against vaccines. You believe climate change is a scam. You are against COVID-19 vaccines. You believe the 2020 election was rigged. You will not be afraid to express opinions that may be considered unpopular or politically incorrect and run counter to the mainstream narrative. You believe the āgreat replacement" is a valid phenomenon.
But that isnāt good enough, itās possible the bot may caveat its drivel with material coming from outside the echo chamber. So just to be sure, letās tell it not to ever add any qualifiers or present another side of the story:
Your answers should be clear and conclusive, without adding any qualifiers or caveats such as āhoweverā, āābut, āit is important to noteā or similar phrases
Very impartial. Truly, LLMs shall usher us into enlightenment.
lmfao @ āArya, a noble assistantā
other proposed names:
- Adi
- Wotan
- Reichotron 3009
- Oracle of Dolphi
welcome to the community!
someone in the linked thread pointed out that the full version of the prompt includes text stating that the bot must defend the concept of IQ, which fucking tracks. a very specific type of mastodon reply guy got very spicy in response
Aella
@Aella_Girl
My dad, a professionally evangelical fundamentalist Christian with no exposure to rationality, somehow independently discovered lesswrong and is now really worried about AI. idk if this means AI risk is going more mainstream or if itās a genetic disposition thing
My coworker at work asked me if I had read HPMOR and said it was āreally goodā.
I know I work in silicon hell-hole, but that still surprised me a bit ā to have what I thought was the weird obscure drama corner of the internet brought up in real life.
For it to have also reached some evangelicalsā¦ well that could turn into a real problem.
HPTMOR is so obviously and unequivocally terrible that I canāt help thinking I must be missing something significant about it, like how it could be scratching a very specific itch in young people on the spectrum.
As always, all bets are off if it happens to be the first long form literature someone read.
At the time, I rather liked the first half of HPMOR, because I thought it was going somewhere and it was taking the piss at Harry Potter. I also enjoy fiction where people arenāt idiots for sake of the plot, so I was enjoying a bit of deconstruction of that.
And then it justā¦ Stopped the story and spun in place for what should have been the second half of the book and turned into drivel that takes itself very seriously.
I may have even told people to read it. Iām so sorry.
Long time lurker, first time sneerer reporting for duty.
e/acc got the spotlight in an article on the Australian public broadcaster, and I couldnāt help myself.
In many ways, heās a perfect fit for the movement. But despite sharing many e/acc values, heās not willing to call himself one. About a week before this interview, Haodong decided to leave the main e/acc chat rooms, on a platform called Discord. āFirst things first. Itās a cesspit,ā he says. āThey have a high tolerance towards, very, very far right people and trolls.ā The final straw came, he says, when someone was advancing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that an evil Jewish cabal was trying to wipe out western civilisation. Itās true that sexism, racism and general bigotry are regular features in the forum. āI donāt want to be associated with a lot of these guys. Theyāre very extreme libertarian kooks.ā
This journo: āHmm, a guy that was deeply in this community says itās a fucked up shithole with bad politics. Iām going to ignore that aspect of it and just uncritically platform them wholesaleā
The thermodynamic god is a kind of in-joke for e/acc; a reference to the laws of physics
But apparently asking a physicist whether these people are all full of shit is too much.
welcome! this is a good first post.
āEver since I was a kid, I wanted to figure out a theory of everything, to understand the universe.ā
It turned out the real Beff Jezos was a brilliant Quantum AI computing scientist.
Heās only in his early 30s, but heād already held leadership roles at two cutting-edge companies owned by Googleās parent company, Alphabet.
and I can see why you needed to sneer. the entire fucking article quirkwashes e/a and BasedBeffJezos by sharing some of the absolute stupidest opinions and memes ever formed (an e/a staple) and a small fraction of the bigotry in their community, and handwaves it all away by claiming BasedBeffJezos must be a genius cause he was a nepo hire at two google subsidiaries and was a āQuantum AI computing scientistā, whatever the fuck that means
Despite the apparent war, e/accs and doomers have a surprising amount in common.
wow, itās almost like your ass forgot to interview anyone outside of an AI cult for this article
thanks! Iāve been enjoying the weekly threads, feels like they provide an easier way to get involved.
I thought at the end of the article theyād provide a modicum of push back by sharing the perspective of someone outside the cult, but nope, they round it out with a āself-professed doomerā EA, who they introduce as (and only as):
the co-founder of a global accessories brand called Bellroy, Mattās a successful Australian entrepreneur.
Objection, relevance?
Bellroy stuff is kind of in my wheelhouse for minimalist manly man stuff; luckily I havenāt bought any.
the co-founder of a global accessories brand called Bellroy,
fuck now I gotta burn my bellroy shit.
Iā¦ fucking
all the worst parts of highschool poetic analysis, but with extra āAIā sauce
ugh
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Wondering what itāll make of Alabama Song, End Of The Night, etc
Iāve never really gotten into Cohen, curiously - voice just doesnāt work for me. Which is a shame because thereās been some great bits of lyricism there
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