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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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a quick supercut of garbage Scott Alexander takes for your sneering convenience:
does anyone have the slightest idea what Scott’s talking about here? cause I feel like I’d have heard of a billionaire donating most of their money to any cause, unless my intuition’s right and scott’s playing with words pretending that treating a non-profit as a piggy bank somehow isn’t possible or common
I… I don’t have words for this one actually, the sneers write themselves
a bunch of folks in the thread and the original podcast have already explained exactly how this works, Scott, and it’s also kinda fucking obvious, but I guess don’t let that stop you from JAQing off about it
The kind of people described in this article say "cool yacht" and are loathsome.
https://archive.is/sMA9e
"The 12 Wildest Things I Learned as a Nightlife Concierge in Ibiza
Between €69,000 Champagne and feral party crashers, private yachts and helicopter flights, hangover IVs and “naked houses,” just one week managing wealthy clients pushed our writer to the brink of exhaustion."
It's nice that they're providing gainful employment to the four big guys. I imagine they stand around all the time waiting. Probably oiled.
I was going to say, I have never heard a single human soul in my decades upon this earth say "cool yacht."
@self @dgerard Wanna bet Scott didn't listen to the podcast before he wrote these replies?
Also note that this post fails their own moderation rules. it isn't true nor kind (they admit their reaction is in bad faith), and it is according to them culture war shit. I wonder if you were to post this podcast and said you agreed with it if your post would be removed due to culture war.
(Also wow Scotts replies are so bad, layers of strawmen and misunderstanding of the lefts arguments)
Well technically, there’s no culture war thread on the subreddit anymore, so all of the culture war rules they had to invent to contain the culture war they started in part by inventing a series of culture war rules which constantly fed the flames of culture war are irrelevant, since when there’s no culture war thread to quarantine the culture war it’s fine to wage culture war elsewhere (and if you took away culture war, what would be the point of either the sub or its inspiring author?)
@YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM And they have not even updated their rules after all those years. Prob because parts of the rules come from 'The Rightful Caliph' himself, and well can't change them without divine guidance about what to do about the themotte/cw problem.
@YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM (My joke about the 'The Rightful Caliph' doesn't come from sneerclub btw, it was actually what some of the Rationalists said about Scott when he became more popular than Yudkowsky)