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.
it always feels like someone’s walking on my grave when my friends or coworkers bring up Rationalist shit, and it’s been happening increasingly often
about 2y back, one of my (ML, datascience) friends asked me “so what do you think about the EA thing” while we were on a hike (!)
I’d been peripherally aware of some of it but not the full picture, but my stance of the time bears out learning more about them
worried about when I hear the mention in a bar though. and it is near guaranteed to happen around these parts sometime, even if just because there’s some things that ZA has a timelag on
at least we now have Sam Bankman-Fried to point to
Sam Barsman-Unfreed