this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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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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My brain is blanking on TPOT even so I have no idea what is going on.
But I do recall I noticed this about Dill while we were still on reddit:
"he wasnt dating a 17 year old, he was domming (but worse) a 16 year old who he met when she was 15. And from his profile page his bday is 09/27/1974. So he was about 28 at the time"
So people talking about 'sex crimes involving a minor when he was 20, which is 20 years ago.' makes me wonder how much rounding down (and for the years ago) rounding up there is going on. If that vaguepost is about Dill.
Long story not-very-short:
The vaguepost is about Matthew Richard Sheahan (AKA @chaosprime), who runs an..."alternative tantric lifestyle community" (I.E. sex cult), and recently invited Brent Dill (AKA @HephaistosF) to live with him, as an alternative to Brent's previous living situation of "being homeless in the jungles of Hawaii."
This did not go well, and Brent left after ~one week. @chaosprime appears to have sent him on his way with something to the tune of $20000. They had a public back-and-forth about the whole thing on Twitter, if anyone cares to actually dig it up.
Contemporaneously, two women appear to have had, shall we say, "negative" experiences of living with @chaosprime's "community", and while they're not making public claims (for fear of retaliation and/or wanting to Just Move On), this kicked the hornet's nest of whisper networks that have known @chaosprime as a bad actor for some time now (at bare minimum, he's earned a lifetime ban from VibeCamp events, and his "sizable donation" to them was returned), and prompted someone to dig up his criminal record and share it rather than staying quiet; long story short, 20+ years ago he was imprisoned for five years for child sexual assault, among other tidbits, to go with his current reputation of "Not Very Good At Consent" and show that it's a well-established, long-term pattern of abusive behavior when in positions of power over women.
That's the setting for the current drama-implosion, which seems to have resulted in @chaosprime being fired from his developer contract gig with Freehold Games / Caves of Qud (which is actually a really excellent traditional roguelike that I'd highly recommend, and how I initially ended up stumbling across all of this crap being relevant to my interests).
D-: