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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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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

giving any reason other than "the community needs to be more racist" is way exceeding my expectations. well on them

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

thankfully gives that one too, i.e.

Now I see a community whose commendable openness to unbiased discussion of any idea is being misused by questionable actors to platform their views.

seems to have been the last straw

(even as you or i might say "my good bitch have you met rationalists")

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“my good bitch have you met rationalists”

It can be pretty hard to admit you have been conned, so I figure this is their defense mechanism, pretending that this all is new and not that it has been there from the start. (The hbomberguy skull guy was one of the early LW people for example (9 years, has it been 9 years already?))

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

jfc. i remembered that the aurini motherfucker was very liberal with hard-r, but listening to that clip in 2024 is something else altogether.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

so much nothing of value was lost when his youtube was finally shut down