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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • blakestacey@awful.systemsB blakestacey@awful.systems

    Hops over to Wikipedia… searches… “Showing results for ruleal. No results found for ruliad.”

    Hmm. Widen search to all namespaces… oh, it was deleted. Twice.

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    gerikson@awful.systems
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    #152

    The Ruliad sounds like an empire in a 3rd rate SF show

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    • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

      Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.

      Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

      Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

      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 so 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. What a year, huh?)

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      gerikson@awful.systems
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      #153

      LW ghoul does the math and concludes: letting measles rip unhindered through the population isn’t that bad, actually

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      robo's Shortform — LessWrong

      Comment by robo - In the 1950s, with 0% vaccination rate, measles caused about 400-500 deaths per year in the US.  Flu causes are about 20,000 deaths per year in the US, and smoking perhaps 200,000.  If US measles vaccination rates fell to 90%, and we had 100-200 deaths per year, that would be pointless and stupid, but for public health effects the anti-smoking political controversies of the 1990s were >10 times more impactful.

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      (www.lesswrong.com)

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      • B bluemonday1984@awful.systems

        Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.

        Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

        Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

        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 so 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. What a year, huh?)

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        bigmuffn69@awful.systems
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        #154

        Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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        • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

          Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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          saucerwizard@awful.systems
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          eagerly awaiting the multi page denial thread

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          • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

            Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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            istewart@awful.systems
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            #156

            Somehow, I registered a total lack of surprise as this loaded onto my screen

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            • S saucerwizard@awful.systems

              eagerly awaiting the multi page denial thread

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              lurker@awful.systems
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              #157

              “im saving the world from AI! me talking to epstein doesn’t matter!!!”

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              • blakestacey@awful.systemsB blakestacey@awful.systems

                None of these words are in the Star Trek Encyclopedia

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                istewart@awful.systems
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                #158

                at least Khan Noonien Singh had some fucking charisma

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                • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

                  Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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                  lurker@awful.systems
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                  #159

                  it’s all coming together. every single techbro and current government moron, they all loop back around to epstein in the end

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                    it’s all coming together. every single techbro and current government moron, they all loop back around to epstein in the end

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                    saucerwizard@awful.systems
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                    ‘We have certain things in common Jeffrey’

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                    • blakestacey@awful.systemsB blakestacey@awful.systems

                      I think that’s more about Wolfram giving a clickbait headline to some dicking around he did in the name of “the ruliad”, a revolutionary conceptual innovation of the Wolfram Physics Project that is best studied using the Wolfram Language, brought to you by Wolfram Research.

                      The full ruliad—which appears at the foundations of physics, mathematics and much more—is the entangled limit of all possible computations. […] In representing all possible computations, the ruliad—like the “everything machine”—is maximally nondeterministic, so that it in effect includes all possible computational paths.

                      Unrelated William James quote from 1907:

                      The more absolutistic philosophers dwell on so high a level of abstraction that they never even try to come down. The absolute mind which they offer us, the mind that makes our universe by thinking it, might, for aught they show us to the contrary, have made any one of a million other universes just as well as this. You can deduce no single actual particular from the notion of it. It is compatible with any state of things whatever being true here below.

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                      istewart@awful.systems
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                      that is best studied using the Wolfram Language,

                      isn’t this just a particularly weird lisp </troll>

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                      • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

                        Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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                        amoeba_girl@awful.systems
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                        #162

                        no fucking way

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                          “im saving the world from AI! me talking to epstein doesn’t matter!!!”

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                          mirrorwitch@awful.systems
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                          €5 say they’ll claim he was talking to jefffrey in an effort to stop the horrors.

                          no not the abuse of minors, he was asking epstein for donations to stop AGI, and it’s morally ethical to let rich abusers get off scott free if that’s the cost of them donating money to charitable causes such as the alignment problem /s

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                            €5 say they’ll claim he was talking to jefffrey in an effort to stop the horrors.

                            no not the abuse of minors, he was asking epstein for donations to stop AGI, and it’s morally ethical to let rich abusers get off scott free if that’s the cost of them donating money to charitable causes such as the alignment problem /s

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                            lurker@awful.systems
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                            #164

                            I dont like how I can envision this and find it perfectly plausible

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                            • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

                              Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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                              scruiser@awful.systems
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                              You know, it makes the exact word choices Eliezer chose on this post: https://awful.systems/post/6297291 much more suspicious. “To the best of my knowledge, I have never in my life had sex with anyone under the age of 18.” So maybe he didn’t know they were underage at the time?

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                              • S scruiser@awful.systems

                                You know, it makes the exact word choices Eliezer chose on this post: https://awful.systems/post/6297291 much more suspicious. “To the best of my knowledge, I have never in my life had sex with anyone under the age of 18.” So maybe he didn’t know they were underage at the time?

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                                gerikson@awful.systems
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                                #166

                                aka the Minsky defense

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                                • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

                                  Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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                                  blakestacey@awful.systems
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                                  #167

                                  Jeffrey, meet Eliezer!

                                  Nice to hear from you today. Eliezer: you were the highlight of the weekend!

                                  John Brockman, October 19, 2016

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                                  • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

                                    Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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                                    blakestacey@awful.systems
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                                    #168

                                    I am just over here mouthing “what the fuck”

                                    over and over again

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                                    • bigmuffn69@awful.systemsB bigmuffn69@awful.systems

                                      Gentlemen, it’s been an honour sneering w/ you, but I think this is the top 🫡 . Nothings gonna surpass this (at least until FTX 2 drops)

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                                      blakestacey@awful.systems
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                                      #169

                                      “Friday? We’re meeting at Jeffrey’s Thursday night” —Stuart “consciousness is a series of quantum tubes” Hameroff

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                                      • gerikson@awful.systemsG gerikson@awful.systems

                                        There’s a small push by promptfondlers to make this “a thing”.

                                        See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

                                        LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository

                                        I’m planning on using this data to catalog “in the wild” instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

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                                        I’m planning on using this data to catalog “in the wild” instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

                                        He’ll probably do this by running an agent that uses a chatbot with the playwright mcp to occasionally scrape the site, then feed that to a second agent who’ll filter the posts for suspect behavior, then to another agent to summarize and create a report, then another agent which decides if the report is worth it for him to read and message him through his socials. Maybe another agent with db access to log the flagged posts at some point.

                                        All this will be worth it to no one except the bot vendors.

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                                          it’s all coming together. every single techbro and current government moron, they all loop back around to epstein in the end

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                                          v0ldek@awful.systems
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                                          At this point I’m starting the suspect that they were actually all produced in a lab somewhere on that island

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