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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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Good Guy Orange Site refuses to believe rationalists/EAs can be as bad as we're describing and is sure we're just exaggerating (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] evilsmurf 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Who is "we" and what is the description?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We = Cool

Orange Site = Hacker News

EA = Effective Altruism. Sam Bankman Fried identified with this group. Loosely associated with the rationalist movement.

Rationalists = Oh man where do I even start. A lot of them believe in the inevitable rise of an AI god who will rule us with either an iron or benevolent fist depending on how good a job we do of raising it. Also there's a lot of misuse of Bayes' Theorem for some reason.

Any questions?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We is david in this case, he has earned the right to refer to himself in a plural as his crimes against humanity are that great. Matchmaker from hell, destroyer of twitter and reddit, creator of all the woke articles on wikipedia and rationalwiki, look at their works ye mighty and despair for his burning eye is upon you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

in this case, and Amy!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I was ignoring her for the joke, sorry Amy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Somehow more confused people are stumbling into awful.systems than ever stumbled into sneerclub.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don’t know what it is about the existence of multiple instances that confuses the truly Reddit-minded into stumbling into another sub and demanding they explain themselves

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

there is something about this that makes me more confident in the future of the federated social web. There is a core infrastructure but not a core brand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it just a hangover from doing the same on Reddit, just with subreddits?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

@gerikson @self /c/lostfederators

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The miracle of decentralization!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

dunno, who the fuck are you