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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

imagine being this butthurt

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Without fail in the comments section, we have Daniel Kokotajlo (the philosophy student turned ai safety advocate who recently got canned at OAI) making the claim that "we [ = Young Daniel and our olde friend Big Yud] are AI experts and believe that risking full scale nuclear war over data centers is actually highly rational^{tm}" :)

...anyways, what were we saying about David Gerard being a bad faith actor again?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (17 children)

I'm noticing that people who criticize him on that subreddit are being downvoted, while he's being upvoted.

I wouldn't be surprised if, as part of his prodigious self-promotion of this overlong and tendentious screed, he's steered some of his more sympathetic followers to some of these forums.

Actually it's the wikipedia subreddit thread I meant to refer to.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Winning sentences of the day so far:

Conservapedia is 100% true and correct. Evidence: https://www.conservapedia.com/Garfield_(comic_strip)

Whoever wrote that deffo wants to fuck Nermal.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

This is going to be a banger, I can feel it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well that's a lot of words. It's like someone turned a dispute over editing a page into an biography of the editor. It's that kind if mountain out of a molehill business that has led to me no longer editing Wikipedia.

And the bit if the article that struck home:

He had started out on the internet 20 years before as a passionate partisan for his new tribe and its potential to transform the world. In the intervening decades, though, his optimism had waned.

It's not an uncommon trajectory, it's one I've been on myself, becoming disillusioned by social media. And yet, the Fediverse has given me new hope and enthusiasm.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm starting to think that some writing classes would really help the EA/LR crowd.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

no, no, it's fine. the less readable they are, the better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (8 children)
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