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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.

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

Funniest fuckin' sentence I have read today:

First off, if you've read The Singularity Is Near, which was published 19 years ago in 2005, you should be aware that the sequel book is a lot less technical.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

Wait, this guy published "is Near" twenty years ago and then UNIRONICALLY published "is Nearer"?

Come the fuck on, this has to be satire?

The sequel to "Apocalypse Now", "Apocalypse Even More Presently"

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Asymptotically approaching the Singularity.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Gooning for rats

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 9 points 5 months ago

@V0ldek

Buy my new book “You're older than you've ever been”.

Twenty years pass

Buy my new book “And now you're even older”

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

iirc he predicted the singularity somewhere in 2040 so it does make sense, even if it looks weird.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Oh gosh, hopefully I live to see "Singularity Is Still Near, Just Not as Near as I Thought: Trust Me Bros" released in 2041

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

'Sorry no singularity, climate change is an existential threat after all'.

(I'm bitterly reminded of the SSC post where he starts with 'why don't we hear about the ozone layer anymore, well the scientists fixed it!' where he goes after the environmentalist movement. There is only one problem with the 'we fixed the ozone layer' thing. Butt wait, there is more!)

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

tl;dr is upset that Kurzweil is not as much of a doomer as they are

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