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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024

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  • Oh man, I’ve always wondered how the hiring process could become more impersonal and demeaning, now I know!

    • AI enthusiasts continue to cause the rest of us to not have nice things: project maintainer shuts down experiment to curtail backlash exacerbated by fan

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  • You’re welcome!

    (Though that is a more fun way of looking at things. Perhaps I am just joy-averse?)

    • AI enthusiasts continue to cause the rest of us to not have nice things: project maintainer shuts down experiment to curtail backlash exacerbated by fan

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  • Headcanon is that somebody criticised the theming of many of the homebrew commands (brew, tap, cask, bottle, formula etc.) as being IPA-enthusiast level insufferable, and the maintainer proceeded to respond in the worst fucking way

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024

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  • If only the “Dark Forest” hypothesis of human-extraterrestrial interaction would enter the public consciousness any sooner. We’d at least have more interesting ideas than this shit.

    NB: I have not watched the 3BP adaptation yet, tho I have heard it is good. I have listened to the first two books as audiobooks and am tickled by Bruno Roubicek’s mildly (three body) problematic accent-work.

    • "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill

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  • I’m like 40% sure you’ve replied to the wrong comment but in case you didn’t:

    • "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill

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  • this shit must have been infuriating to get in contact with when you’re expert in the area (i’m not)

    He’s not the world’s most annoying man for nothing! (Article has been discussed on old sneerclub, I think)

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024

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    • Remember when AI had proper hallucinations? Eyeballs! Spurious dogs!

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  • Spourage the Spurious dog was one of my fave cartoons!

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024

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  • This journo: "Hmm, a guy that was deeply in this community says it's a fucked up shithole with bad politics. I'm going to ignore that aspect of it and just uncritically platform them wholesale"

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024

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  • the co-founder of a global accessories brand called Bellroy,

    fuck now I gotta burn my bellroy shit.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024

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    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024

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  • It’s you!

    • Amazon’s 'Just Walk Out' grocery stores are dead

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  • something something ethical consumption something something under capitalism

    • 'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes'

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  • You’ve probably just spoken it into existence, friend

    • 'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes'

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  • Counterpoint: it’s not not a dating app

    • 'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes'

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  • neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

    Please don’t remind me about my miserable time on dating apps.

    • 'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes'

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  • Given that Ellison star-witnessed her ex into >200000 hours in the clink, I dread to think of what might happen to the person that marries her

    • SlateScott talking race and IQ: very cool and truth seeking. Revealing SlateScott's powerword: what's the public interest in that?

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  • A rat scoring an own goal shouldn't be surprising, and a rat, especially ZMD, not understanding how to edit should also not be surprising.

    • Mars Review of Books is offering a swimsuit edition. All hot, all neoreactionary!

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  • can't run a print magazine anymore because of woke

    • SBF's effective altruism and rationalism considered an aggravating circumstance in sentencing

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  • A really good lawyer carries duct tape