Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post, 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.
so cultish that even the LW comments worry itās cultish - donāt worry about my feet bleeding
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Meanwhile some of the comments are downright terrifying, also the whole āresearchā output is overly-detailed yet lacking any substance, and deeply deeply in fantasy land, but all the comments a debating in favour of or against what is perceived as āreal workā, and in terms of presentation āvibesā.
I mean my parents always said that fascist/cultish movements have issues distinguishing signified and signifier, but good grief. (Yes too much Lacan in the household)
I love the guy who goes in and says ābut you really should give this guy money! I know he has produced absolutely no research or work worthy of a second glance but heās my friend and I promise he SOUNDS suuuuper smart! btw I read the Sequences once. funding now??ā
I wonder what Peter Thiel would think about using disability benefits. Does he fly Ayn Rand style, where itās okay to benefit from it while actively campaigning against it?
None of the commenters seem to think keeping a safe work environment is part of work.
EA overdue to all be wiped out from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
Just like everybody else, i understood that reference!
Please hire me for AI safety, I create active work place hazards around me and therefore small children and animals are not safe around me, but I really work hard (unless it is cleaning up).
Wonder if he is single.
This post also reminds me of the story I heard about a brilliant but weird math professor who had a tendency to touch walls when he walked around in the building. Eventually, in supreme cargo cult behavior, students also started to touch walls in an unconscious hope this would improve their math skills. Anyway this guys hopes and dreams to be hired would be shattered if he ever hears the people hiring him are a fan of Taleb.
Good that the communities first reaction is saying this is a mh red flag. (It is also a workplace red flag)
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I have worked with a couple of these eager shitwits over the years, and they are awful. theyāll effortgraft waaaay into a thing that they think is totes the solution, ādeliverā it as ādoneā (aka āhereās a branch that already does all that, we can take it live nowā), which all so handily allows them to frame any questions/criticism/etc as ādonāt you think we need ${problem} to be solved?ā
the. fucking. worst.
sudden flashback to when $eagerdev pushed a branch that implemented
test-infrasteered by ansibleā¦ in which you needed to write secondary, entirely separate, roles/specs for thetest-infrathing to āverifyā(didnāt even try to hook ansible definitions (frankly I wouldnāt want to either (but if ansible werenāt so fucking shit at what it does _that whole thing wouldnāt have been necessary in the first place)))
Back when I used reddit, r/badmathematics would feature weirdos that posted REAMS of shit just like that guyās whiteboard pictures. There, we called them cranks.
@dgerard
Never occurred to them to simply put shoes on.
Shoes arenāt rational
you know what
a not-insignificant element of the TPOT cluster is the ācozyā/āvibesā aspect
and for some reason your reply just made me think the thought āwhile they espouse their shitty views they want to be comfortable, to maximize feeling unchallenged, to really get into itā
on the one hand it feels like an obvious realisation, but I also hadnāt really thought of it specifically like that before
(admittedly Iām briefly jumping from ārats -> postratsā there by referencing the TPOT cluster, but as is known the latter havenāt really changed their beliefs just their rendering)