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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Saw something about "sentiment analysis" in text. While writers have discussed "death of the author" and philosophers and linguists have discussed what it even means to derive meaning from text, these fucking AI dorks are looking at text in a vacuum and concluding "this text expresses anger".

print("I'm angry!")

the above python script is angry, look at my baby skynet

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Openai are you angry? Yes -> it is angry. No -> it is being sneaky, and angry.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Us ADHD people really have to get our rejection sensitivity under control, I tell ya what.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am deeply hurt by this post. I thought we were friends here. (/s)

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no, are you mad at me? (j/k!!)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Please dont mock me like that.

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