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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting thisā¦)
āInference Magazine,ā a substack written by a young feller named āWisemanā who, in the most recent article, says ānuh-uh, youāre the parrotā to the work of Dr. Bender and co (and the rest of humanity, by extension).
https://inferencemagazine.substack.com/
The hackernews thread is a real Bad Philosophy turkey shoot:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655780
Orange site really is out here reinventing hard behaviorism.
āWe canāt directly observe internal states beyond our own subjectivityā -> Letās try to ignore them and see what we get" -> āWeāve developed a model that doesnāt feature internal states as a meaningful element of cognitionā -> āthere are no internal statesā -> āI know Iām a stochastic parrot but what are you?ā
Damn well put!
These people need to sit through a college level class on linguistics or something like that. This is a demonstration of why STEM majors need general higher education.
some parrots are more stochastic than others