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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 news, everyone! eliezer is writing fiction again (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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"glowfic" apparently. written in a roleplay forum format.

This is not a story for kids, even less so than HPMOR. There is romance, there is sex, there are deliberately bad kink practices whose explicit purpose is to get people to actually hurt somebody else so that they'll end up damned to Hell, and also there's math.

start here. or don't, of course.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why do both Scotts and Eliezers pseudonyms end with 'ain'? Yvain and Iarwain.

Edit: and small frustration what is up with the lack of timestamps? I know the internet is getting worse and worse with those replacing the 'posted at 22 feb 2022' with 'posted 1 year ago' things (as predicted in the transmetropolitan), or just having sites autoupdate the timestamps to seem current for the google ranking (saw a '2024' guide which in the text still talked about 2023 and had a mid 2023 timestamp, so somebody messed up a script there). But no timestamps at all is a bit odd, the only timestamp I saw was 'Jan 19, 2024, 3:29 PM' and that looks suspiciously like 'now'.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what is up with the lack of timestamps?

For mysterious reasons they've screened off their own past.

There are hidden timestamps, remove the ".post-footer { display: none; }" CSS from the page and they should appear, but yeah keeping timestamps from us is the worst I want to know when stuff went down.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't even really care that much, it is just a small but ongoing frustration with enshittification of everything digital. (and the Rationalists do nothing! You live in SV damnit, do some effective angry protesting or something ;) )

[–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why protest when you could spend far less energy and just "not be wrong" and "have no stake" by over-fitting your statistical model to the past?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for filling my 'make up people to be angry about' quota for today.

[–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Always my favorite part of your day.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago

I'm very good at it, it is one of my core competencies, which synergies well with the mission statement of awful.systems, in this powerpoint presentation I will...