Feel like you want to sneer about something but you donā€™t quite have a snappy post in you? 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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota here and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • titotal@awful.systems
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    Apparently thereā€™s a new coding AI that is supposedly pretty good. Zvi does the writeup, and logically extrapolates what will happen for future versions, which will obviously self improve andā€¦ solve cold fusion?

    James: You can just ā€˜feelā€™ the future. Imagine once this starts being applied to advanced research. If we get a GPT5 or GPT6 with a 130-150 IQ equivalent, combined with an agent. Youā€™re literally going to ask it to ā€˜solve cold fusionā€™ and walk away for 6 months.

    ā€¦

    Um. I. Uh. I do not think you have thought about the implications of ā€˜solve cold fusionā€™ being a thing that one can do at a computer terminal?

    Yep. The recursive self improving AI will solve cold fucking fusion from a computer terminal.

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      8 months ago

      Where are they going to find 500 people in India who are good at solving cold fusion and will do it for pennies.

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      Who needs things like ā€œexperimentsā€ and ā€œdataā€? Surely a chatbot superintelligence can extrapolate all of physics from two frames of a video of an apple falling.

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      James: You can just ā€˜feelā€™ the future. Imagine once this starts being applied to advanced research. If we get a GPT5 or GPT6 with a 130-150 IQ equivalent, combined with an agent.

      ā€¦ fucking hell thatā€™s a few layers of quackery and far-AI promise nuttery all at once

      Iā€™m not going to substantively touch on most of those, because by and large I think everyone here gets it

      but 'feel' the futureā€¦ itā€™s so ā€¦ ā€œjust vibes, manā€. petition to crowdfund these poor dipshits some buttplug.io-compatible sex toys or something, give them something else to feel besides vibes