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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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Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it's not a CASTLE it's a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago (12 children)

The problem with this type of criticism is that for the most part it’s usually pretty lazy. If you just want to make people laugh, there’s no need to be charitable or high-effort. The average r/sneerclub post consisted of finding something seemingly absurd or offensive said by a rationalist and then mocking it. The resulting threads are obviously biased and not epistemically rigorous. Like, Wytham abbey was technically a manor house, but “EA gets a castle” is objectively a funnier meme. There are sometimes good arguments in there (I think my old sneerclub posts weren’t terrible), but they’re not the point of the community, and you shouldn’t expect them to be common.

@titotal@awful.systems hey I spend whole minutes crafting sneers, how dare ya call me lazy!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

he may be entitled to compensation

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dust specks (of a certain kind) are known to cause mesothelioma

[–] flizzo@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago

If you or your loved ones have been exposed to the knowledge of dust specks, you may be entitled to compensation in a future simulation.

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