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 you’ll 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 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy 4th July in advance...I guess.)
Tired: the universe was created by a deity
Wired: the universe was created by physical forces
Fucking crazy: the universe was created by a figment of my imagination and I'm communicating with it using a blog post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uSTR9Awkn3gpqpSBi/dear-paperclip-maximizer-please-don-t-turn-off-the
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screenshot from south park's scientology episode featuring the iconic chyron "This is what scientologists actually believe" with "scientologists" crossed out and replaced with "rationalists"Sidenote: The rats should count themselves extremely fucking lucky they've avoided getting skewered by South Park, because Parker and Stone would likely have a fucking field day with their beliefs
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They'd just have Garisson join the zizians and call it a day.
@Architeuthis @gerikson
The man outside Stratford station yelling through a megaphone about Jesus makes more sense than this
@gerikson @BlueMonday1984
"biological civilization is about to create artificial superintelligence" is it though?
I'm gonna give my quick-and-dirty opinion on this, don't expect a lengthy defence.
Short answer, no. Long answer: no, intelligence cannot be created by blindly imitating it with mere silicon