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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.

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

AGI growth lol from twitter

xcancel.com link

Edit: somebody also Did The Math (xcancel) "I eyeballed the rough numbers from your graph then re-plotted it as a linear rather than a logarithmic scale, because they always make me suspicious. You're predicting the effective compute is going to increase about twenty quadrillion times in a decade. That seems VERY unlikely."

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago

Straight line on a lin-log chart, getting crypto flashbacks.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

I think technically the singularitarians were way ahead of them on the lin-log charts lines. Have a nice source (from 2005).

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

I can't get over that the two axis are:

Time to the next event.

Time before present.

And then they have plotted a bunch of things happening with less time between. I can't even.

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