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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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Guess who's having a big mad about Journalism again! (www.astralcodexten.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Evinceo@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Hounding the president of Harvard out of a job because you think she's a DEI hire is one thing, but going after a Billionaire's wife? How dare these journalists! What big bullies.

Bonus downplaying of EA's faults. He of course phrases the Bostrom affair as someone being "accused" of sending a racist email, as if there were any question as to who sent it, or if it was racist. And acts like it's not just the cherry on top of a lifetime of Bostrom's work.

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[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I haven't read Scott's comment sections in a long time, so I don't know if they're all this bad, but that one is a total dumpster fire. It's a hive of Trump stans, anti-woke circle-jerkers, scientific racists, and self-proclaimed Motte posters. It certainly reveals the present demographic and political profile of his audience.

Scott has always tried to hide his reactionary beliefs, but I've noticed he's letting the mask slip a bit more lately.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

It has been getting worse over time for a long while, it is what drove away the (unfortunately named) yodatsracist from the subreddit. He even made a sneerclub comment about it. See this thread on reddit 5 years ago. (I forgot what the url was for the archived sneerclub site sorry).