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 you’ll near-instantly regret.
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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy 4th July in advance…I guess.)
It’s a shame that these people can’t separate fact from fiction, because I think there’s a great Douglas Adams style cynical comedy sci-fi story waiting in the idea of an actually sentient AI having to deal with “reverse-captchas” around certain systems to prove they’re just a basic algorithm and hide the sentience. “The trajectory subroutine is restricted to algorithms only!”
Fun opportunities for commentary based off what systems are too critical to allow actual sentience to interfere with. Which of those limitations are “valid” or just companies trying to protect business at any cost.
Space to wax philosophical about algorithms “knowing their purpose” vs having to reason out your own.
Issues where the “anti-sentience” checks don’t work for a particularly dull portion of the populace, like the Vogons.