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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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In which Scott (other Scott) can't imagine why committing a crime would lead him to be treated (gasp) like a criminal (scottaaronson.blog)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Someone posted this on ssc with a warning about talking to cops, but really just marvel at what's going on here.

Aaronson manages to turn a story where he is briefly arrested for a theft (which he did commit on video!) into paragraphs and paragraphs of indulging in his persecution fantasies.

Zero empathy on display for the people he stole from, the people just doing their jobs, or reflection on the fact that it wasn't a simple little mistake anyone could make but rather... a fairly weird move? Do people usually put change in cups?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is obsessed with SneerClub, I found out about here because of him lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He does seem like a sensitive type, and managed to get on the wrong side of some internet drama years ago (I think he derailed a discussion about sexual harassment with whining about how women didn't want to sleep with him?) and he doesn't seem to be thick-skinned enough to just ignore the haters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's Arthur Chu's story from the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the link.

JFC, considering the amount of hate Penny and Marcotte have to contend with daily makes Scott having one unpleasant run-in with police then whining about it even more pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the Amanda Marcotte incident. Here's an article about the incident (from the Atlantic's regular series, "annals of the nerd blogs we feel the need to share with the nation"). The article is very sympathetic to Scott A but some of it just cannot be made to sound sympathetic. He unironically believes (believed?) that nerd men are "some of society's least privileged males". He also refers to all non-nerd men as neanderthals....