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.
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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.)
Could be, not sure the science fiction authors thought this much about it. (Or if the thing I was musing about is even real and not just a coincidence that I read a few works in which it is a thing). Certainly seems likely that this sort of science is where the idea came from.
Had totally forgotten the name of that (Being better at remembering random meme stuff but not names of concepts like this, or a lot of names in general is a curse, also a source of imposter syndrome). But I recall having read the wikipedia page of that before. (Moravec also was the guy who thought of bush robots, wonder if that idea survived the more recent developments of nanotechnology.
Rodney brooks wiki page on AI was amusing