Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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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.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    As soon as some of these LLMs get a math module to do math correctly (And not just via the LLM lookuptable thing) people could write scripts to externalize some more intensive calculations needed for crypto mining. Sure it will be inefficient as fuck, and I doubt the chance of getting a coin reward will be low, but it will be free.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      last week there were a couple of articles about how easy it is to craft an input that makes public chatgpt bots execute scripts (usually as root) on their hosting containers, which is almost definitely the result of a module like that being implemented for better programming-related results (aka fucking cheating), so this is very likely already happening