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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 05:05

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025

https://awful.systems/post/2505486

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Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 17:28

Following up from this truth bomb: awful.systems/comment/4877052

@Soyweiser: Sorry AGIbros, not even the Dutch believe AGI is near.

For your delectation, here are the HN comments

I’m in the other camp: I remember when we thought an AI capable of solving Go was astronomically impossible and yet here we are. This article reads just like the skeptic essays back then.

Ah yes my coworkers communicate exclusively in Go games and they are always winning because they are AI and I am on the street, poor.

There’s not that much else to sneer at though, plenty of reasonable people.

Here’s the lobste.rs disucssion: lobste.rs/s/4xzxqk

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Written by David Gerard on 2024-09-30 at 17:59

oh i dunno, there was

Honestly - Computer Science has given us more clues about how the human mind might work than cognitive science ever did.

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Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 19:11

The best way to unearth sneers is to state “there are no sneers here”

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Toot

Written by V0ldek@awful.systems on 2024-09-30 at 20:18

David took it as a personal challenge

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Descendants

Written by David Gerard on 2024-09-30 at 20:22

given it was first comment when i looked, it was Find Dumb Bro Shit On HN mode

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Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2024-10-01 at 14:45

before you further impugne my sneer-hunting the quote I posted was literally the first one on top in the thread. I thought it was gonna be easy pickings before I realized a lot of people were making sense and I got bored.

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