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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024
  • What do normal people - people who don't pay for twitter, or sneer at rationalists - think of Twitter atp?

    Went on to Twitter (my mistake) after seeing Inside Out 2 because it's the latest kid's movie to feature [trope that I found passe that I can't figure out how to spoil inline] and I see a post on my feed from "HBD Chick".

    And I'm like okay, that has to be "happy birthday, right?". Nah, her third retweet is creamy porno redux.

    Just like all the other right wingers and embarrassingly enthusiastic neoliberals and occasional Musk fans, I don't follow her or anybody that follows her, there's literally no connection or personal interest.

    I feel like the post Elon shift is really understated for how bad the site's gotten. Like I see more people talk about how Instagram reels is racist than I do about the average twitter replies section. I know a lot of left leaning people fled for bluer pastures, but I'm surprised you don’t see more buzz about it from regular, non-power users.

  • Effective Altruists: look, we *tried* to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so *interesting!*
  • Very late, but for the love of God, make sure you raise your black child with enough respect for themselves and their race that they'll avoid debating twitter racists. Make sure your router drops requests to 4chan.org! Disable DNS over HTTPS on their devices! Run all their traffic through a proxy, MitM every request for an image and have a chat with them if you start seeing a lot of pfp sized pictures of roman statues. You need your kid to avoid these people the way they should avoid a hot stove.

  • TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means.

    forum.effectivealtruism.org My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 — EA Forum

    Comment by TracingWoodgrains - I'm not particularly happy to see people within this community immediately present and accept the framing that Manifest was controversial because people reacted harshly to an article explicitly aimed at smearing a community I belong to with reckless disregard for truth...

    My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 — EA Forum

    ...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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    Yud lettuce know that we just don't get it :(
  • I'm one of the lucky 10k who found out what a paperclip maximizer is and it's dumb as SHIT!

    Actually maybe it's time for me to start grifting too. How's my first tweet look?

    What if ChatGPT derived the anti-life equation and killed every non-black that says the n-word 😟

  • Dystopian AI hellscape is when your image generator makes non-whites

    >This has convinced me more and more that the only possible way forward that’s not a dystopian hellscape is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish. Anything else is forcing values

    This dude also posts a direct link to a race-bait bluecheck two comments down, further cementing hn AI threads as downstream frog twitter.

    I know this one might be stretching it a bit, but every comment on this post is sneer-worthy, every single one.

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