Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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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 so 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.)
Found an interesting sneer that compares the AI bubble to the Great Leap Forward.
Also discovered an "anti-distill" program through the article, which aims to sabotage attempts to replace workers with AI "agents".
Kind of a pseudo-sneer, author is writing a
Here's the discussion on the red site: https://lobste.rs/s/nmhkdl/ai_great_leap_forward Plenty of people suspect the text being LLM generated. Pangram disagrees, fwiw.
I do think there's some interesting ideas about how humans will "defend" themselves from being replaced by bots, and that the critical info in a company is seldom in the source code, but in the customer relationships, sales etc.
It seems vaguely AI flavored to me inasmuch as it's using contrasts too much (it's not x it's y) and it's way too verbose. Also it's obviously wrong at least in my experience, middle managers aren't the sparrows, individual contributors (especially juniors) are.
Maybe that's just a symptom of a person reading too much AI text and thinking a good tweet would make a great substack.
Yeah, they lost me at the middle managers bit too. In my experience your manager is probably the one pushing the metrics to show their team's contributions to the knowledge base that is feeding into the AI model that's replacing them. They're already creatures of the bureaucracy and are more likely to try and fight each other over the few remaining roles that will exist after the majority of their teams are replaced with the confabulatron, rather than be concerned about their own replacements. After all, their job stops existing because their team got downsized, but their time in that job may be dependent on their enthusiastic participation in the process that leads there.