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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] m@blat.at 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

@Starseeder As someone with ADHD the only thing I find harder to cope with than the crazy, in-crowd bureaucracy of Wikipedia is attempting to read that mile-long polemic. Where do they find the time to write this shit?

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'n not joking when I say he's probably using an LLM to write this junk. It reads like it, and he's already perfectly comfortable with illustrating his diatribes with embarrassing midjourney slop.

[–] grumpybozo@toad.social 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@Amoeba_Girl @sneerclub Is that why it is so repetitive, wandering, and tedious?

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

The funny thing is: it would be either way!

[–] pja@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Prolix insanity is kind of a Rationalist / Rat-adjacent calling card.

[–] Starseeder@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

I don't know i had to skim it too. Its hard to see what point he's trying to make. I can see why many of wikis choices are shit but he also seems to complain about takis magazine being removed witch just seems like a sensible choice. And he's still up on his high horse about that conference where HBD people were invited to speak. They think "rationality" is about seeking heterodox thinkers but you don't see anyone who believes in shit like miasma theory or any other discredited idea besides race there.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The lesswrong Rationalist sphere people all write like this. ~~And I assume he gets paid via various podcasts/substack subs/a patreon. So this is prob mostly their job.~~ Correction he has a day job as a law clerk. My bad sorry.