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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.)

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[–] lurker@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] lurker@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently people on LinkedIn are theorising about if this guy's even real due to his lack of social media posts for a Silicon Valley techie (his twitter was created this year and is empty aside from his quitting thread, Facebook created yesterday and no LinkedIn account)

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t suppose we could track down how the announcement got any publicity whatsoever…

[–] lurker@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

twitter loves doomerism but at the same time it is a bit odd how it managed to get so much attention so quickly

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago

“I quit my job at the scary drawing company because the drawing I made was too scary for me but my bosses didn’t seem scared enough”

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

lots of people will spend the aftermath of the AI bubble bursting and the "frontier labs" cratering by deleting embarrasing tweets

[–] schnoopy@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Some alignment guy bailed out of fear anthropic will unfavorably immanentize the eschaton. It's as cliche and pointless as the op makes it sound.

Still the link OP shared is like 80% about Terrence Tao worrying about LLMs ruining mathematics, it's a kind of reverse bury the lead situation, which is a bit unnecessary.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

tried to make the link automatically skip to the part about the Anthropic employee but I guess substack doesnt work like that