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.)
According to wikipedia he's a eugenics enjoyer. Another W for nominative determinism I guess.
Hey come now, it is a common Dutch last name. Don't slander Dutch people who are called boer (farmer) like that. Do it for the right reasons. We all suck, no matter our last names.
Wasn't the original designation of Boers (as in the Boer war) a denigrating term?
No idea. Prob best to check wikipedia for that. Could be last names, could be occupation, could be some denigrating term.
Looks like it's an endonym, or was at the time. OFC the reason for the Great Trek was that the boers were pissed they couldn't have slaves anymore while under British rule. Charming people all around.
Oof, thanks for the heads up!
Explains his gushing over Scott in the intro.
I still think he makes a lot of good points in that promptfondlers are losing their shit because people aren't buyin the swill they're selling.
In a similar vein, check out this comment on LW.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hhbibJGt2aQqKJLb7/shortform-1?commentId=25HfwcGxC3Gxy9sHi
So belieiving in the inevitable coming of the robot god is dogma on LW now. This is a cult.
Also note the standard error that people make (Which Rationalists talk about but people also never seem to internalize) Scott is wise and knowledgeable, until we get to a thing DeBoer knows about, and then it suddenly is strange and out of place. But the wise and knowledgeable thing doesn't get revalued, which considering the complaint about Scott is a bit of a lack of selfawareness moment. Almost like something that looks like it is written in wise and knowledgeable and pleasing way doesn't have to be that. Anyway, sorry for the sidetrack we were talking about genAI and this is not relevant to that.
Gell-Mann amnesia.
Guh wtf
I feel ya, I got got by that Sam Kriss piece dunking on hpmor last week.
Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.
I was thinking about that in reaction to something else. Anytime somebody casually brings up chrischan (she has been a decades long stalking/harassement target) should have been a bit of a red flag.
(E: not blaming people for missing that btw, it just stood out to me).
Never trust a guy with a substack
I'm waiting for the day substack puts RSS access behind a paywall. Unfortunately some decent blogs are still on that platform