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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
In Arizonaās U.S. Senate race, Republican Kari Lake told Politico why she feels confident in her chances, despite recent polling showing her behind Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego: āOur polling is a little different. We take polling, but we also combine it with AI, which reads all of whatās happening on social media and across the Internet.ā
Iām sure her results would be very accurate if troll farms could vote and chatgpt was doing the count.
Ubisoftās NFT game is going great:
Ubisoftās NFT game, which has about 6 active players, has a game breaking exploit where one player is winning every match.
āOne player pointed out that the Paulstar111 account was top of the rankings with over 56,000 matches played. Itās not yet clear how the player has been able to connect to so many games and automatically win themā
The orange site is an easy target, but the lack of solidarity in the comments about the NYT Tech Guild strike fills me with dread.
A significant fraction of the people commenting on HN believe themselves to be the next Jeff Bezos. They cheer for the boot that crushes them, as surely one day they themselves will own that boot.
Said it before, Iāll say it again: if Americans are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, HN is where the temporarily embarrassed billionaires go to hang out
NASB - Brian Merchantās celebrating the first anniversary of Blood in the Machineās release
Reading through it, its clear an earlier comment of mine was dead-on - the public image of the Luddites has been fully rehabilitated, and we can primarily credit Merchant for pulling it off.
For any drive by readers who slightly want to know more background about some stuff: Why Richard Feynman wasnāt a great rolemodel.
(more context for the drive by readers, Feynman is often held up as a great man in STEM circles, and even more so in the world of LessWrong Rationalism. (Which is fine if it is about scientific achievements, but it often goes beyond that as here in their page on ātraditional rationalityā)).
Before my postmodern deconstruction and unlearning of the worship of Great Men, all I needed to know about feynman not being a good person to look up to was the calling women bitches thing. Miss me with that PUA shit
Forced to endure an episode of an Irish tv programme about the environment in which a guest sincerely listed carbon capture & storage and small nuclear reactor as potential energy solutions. As mentioned above, the earth is our coffin, hope is a mistake, etc
Carbon capture, small nuclear reactors. We stopped thinking big. To really solve climate change we need to do one easy, but big thing. Blow up the Sun.
Malcolm McDowell successfully blew up a star in one of the Star Trek movies, even if it did immediately get reversed by a time-travel MacGuffin. Perhaps we just need new leadership?
Donāt think we should put another space guy into politics, no matter their expertise at blowing up stars. They tend to go bad quickly.
Kill and dethrone God.
Youāll hear no complaint from me.
Been seeing some stuff from this artist. This is the most recent thing to pop up for me. They seem alright, though I donāt have the energy to fully investigate their politics.
Just some thoughts about musk trying to be liked and doing whatever idiotic thing he can to become liked, specifically speaking at trump rallies:
- The maga turn as framed by this working theory makes sense, but it is also just what youād expect of any idiot that got lucky under capitalism.
- I read a hypothesis somewhere that when he does the jumping jacks at the trump rallies, heās trying to make the letter X with his body. Iām just hoping this somehow derails the fitness industry.
- itās telling that he wears that occupy mars shirt, the thing that people liked him for before, well, pretty much everything after he became well known.
Also: I donāt think weāll make it to mars!!! Fuck mars. The earth is our coffin and hope is a mistake.
NB: am not a US voter.
The Martians seem to think that Mars will be like a new colony, with all the āhopeā that implies, but it seems to me that colonization was a wretched process for many of the colonists (to say nothing of the people being colonized). Musk is only cheerful about it because he thinks heāll be whipping the slaves rather than working the arid red soil.
The earth is our coffin and hope is a mistake.
such a metal album name
Their grindcore coverband is called Earthcofffin Hopecrusher. Their 2 minute long album with 14 songs was pretty good.
Afterwards I was thinking it could also pass as an emo album name. I wonder if there is a good guessing game in āmetal album title or emo album title?ā
I feel like itās slightly more emo for sheer length, āThe Earth is Our Coffinā and āHope is a Mistakeā are both awesome metal albums in their own right, but the combination can only be from the genre that brought you āA Detailed and Poetic Physical Threat to the Person who Intentionally Vandalized My 1994 Dodge Intrepid Behind Kateās Apartmentā
Brb mailing this to myself
I think āany idiot that got lucky under capitalismā is a pretty good description of Musk and his type, to be fair.
You know that thing that happened with the AI generated DOOM?
Well, someone decided to do the same thing with Minecraft, and you can see that the results areā¦ basically abysmal:
https://youtu.be/7Jd-Rr9cJYo?si=-9XZ51ss6cBuSiC3 Skip to 2:00 for the actual āgameplayā.TL:DW nothing is saved outside of the view screen, things arenāt even saved within the view screen, the resolution is like 240p at 20fps, input latency and mouse latency is awful, and this was all apparently done by training on literal millions of hours of Minecraft footage. The mid-range computer I had from 2006 could run the game better than this. A 14-year-old netbook could run the game better than whatever supercomputer theyāre using to render this.
Note that the person in the video isnāt part of the team/whoever that created it, just someone who is reviewing it.
maybe iām a weirdo but i actually really like this a lot. if there werenāt armies of sycophants chanting outside of all our collective windows about how AI is the future of gamingā¦ if you look at this āgameā as an art object unto itself i think it is actually really engaging
it reminds me of other āgamesā like Marian Kleinebergās Wave Function Collapse and Bananaftās Yedoma Globula. thereās one other on the tip of my tongue where you uploaded an image and it constantly reprojected the image onto the walls of a first-person walking simulator, but i donāt recall the name
I do like it also, but notice how they try to hide most of these strange effects in their demo video. Theyāre trying to pass it off as a playable minecraft. Anything interesting about the technology is a defect to these people.
They also claim this is āthe first playable AI-generated gameā when the exact same sort of thing already existed in 2022 (and it looked a lot more efficient and haunted): https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/ Maybe it doesnāt count if you call it āNeural networkā instead of āAIā.
oh cool, Minecraft LSD: Dream Emulator edition
which would be a cool concept, if the generative AI model werenāt incredibly prohibitively expensive to run, trained on plagiarized videos, and incapable of coherently tracking state (believe it or not, LSD: Dream Emulator does have a gameplay and progression loopā¦ game-like things without one tend to get dull very quick)
Note that the person in the video isnāt part of the team/whoever that creates it, just someone who is reviewing it.
See, thereās the mistake. You canāt let outside people actually interact with the thing; you need to stick with cherry-picked 2-3s clips.
Iāve seen this floating about quite a bit, and everyone I know is dunking on it - the most frequent comparison Iāve seen is calling it āMinecraft with dementiaā.
It also shows why those DOOM demos were only 2-3 seconds long, because thatās how long it can keep cohesion for.
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