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 cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    oh no

    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 it’s a genetic disposition thing

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 years ago

      My coworker at work asked me if I had read HPMOR and said it was “really good”.

      I know I work in silicon hell-hole, but that still surprised me a bit – 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 evangelicals… well that could turn into a real problem.

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 years ago

        HPTMOR is so obviously and unequivocally terrible that I can’t 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.

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 years ago

          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 aren’t idiots for sake of the plot, so I was enjoying a bit of deconstruction of that.

          And then it just… 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. I’m so sorry.