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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.)

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

In other news, Discord's jumped on the AI bandwagon, and users are Not Happy^tm^:

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

looks like tomorrow's Pivot

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[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

So they had the new Claude hooked up to some tools so that it could play Pokemon red. Somewhat impressive (at least to me!) It was able to beat lt surge after several days of play. They had a stream demo'ing it on twitch and despite the on paper result of getting 3 gym badges, poor fellas got stuck in Viridian forest trying to find the exit to the maze.

As far as finding the exit goes... I guess you could say he was stumped? (MODS PLEASE DONT BAN)

strim if anyone is curious. Yes, i know this is clever advertising for anthropic, but i do find it cute and maybe someone else will?

https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

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[–] aninjury2all@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what the fuck, who's tweeting this on his behalf and what is it meant to accomplish?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

I considered it but god can you imagine, no one hates SBF more than crypto bros

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Now im wondering how long it will take for people to claim Trump is Satoshi.

E: ah googled it T:-1

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