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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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...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

He also wants us to know that Hannania is much less right than he's made out to be.. Richard gave him a signal boost and is cool with gay people! Unfortunately, Tracey hasn't grasped that "right winger" is simply a metonym for "thinks blacks are the second least domesticable African animal after zebras"

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He also wants us to know that Hannania is much less right than he’s made out to be

Also he doesn't grasp that people hate Hanania because he's a racist, not because of where he falls on the forced left/right spectrum.

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

People like TW are the perfect distillation of the booksmart Slate Star Codex fan class, who are so completely sealed in their bubble that they aren’t even in touch with major parts of themselves anymore. They lose, or never developed, the capacity to even simulate a coherent theory of mind which would make appropriate sense of what the other person is saying. Brains like a Frank Gehry building with a roof made from sheer enthusiasm supported by warped tent poles of Scott Alexander heuristics sticking out at odd angles from each other.

Wow, I went looking for something else and found a deeply sad illustration of exactly what I’m talking about:

https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1772398359745012139

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Yeah, they're good people; we would hang out more, but my brain isn't leaking out of my ears"

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not to get too corny about it, but there are people in this world who think “don’t condescend” means “be nice about other people’s shortcomings” and people who think it means “you might fucking learn something if you would just stop condescending to people you perceive as having shortcomings”, and the first group is completely oblivious to the difference

Which is fine, actually, kind of. It certainly takes genuine work if for whatever reason you grew up to see things in a particular way. But it’s also completely not fucking fine that there are so many people going about their lives pontificating on the world without a shred of the requisite humility.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

I parsed "right" there as "much less correct than he's made out to be" and was like, ye, probably, he's like 0 correct so any amount he's made out to be is too much.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Deep into that diatribe:

Some people's moral intuitions are that nonexistence is preferable to, or not obviously worse than, existence in a less-than-ideal setting. I wholly reject this intuition, and looking at the record of the persistence of life in the face of adversity, belong to a heritage of those who have, time and time again, rejected it. Life is Good.

What a disgustingly privileged thing to say. People have survived in shitty situations so therefore more children in poverty is axiomatically good? ~~This guy deserves poverty.~~ (edit: maybe that's a bit too far but I fucking hate this guy)

[–] grumpybozo@toad.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@sinedpick @sneerclub Nah, I think don’t think he ultimately means icky children living in poverty (ewww) but rather more digital humans living in computers. Unless I’m conflating him with so many flaky/evil others.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

In this case, the context is definitely humans being born on earth. The entire diatribe I responded to can be summed up as "People have all kinds of ethical and moral objections to surrogacy. In this post, I dismiss all of those without an argument, and instead assign positive moral value to everything that increases the number of lives, including surrogacy." It's probably one of the dumbest things I read this week.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Text in AI-generated images will never not be funny to me. N the most n'tural hnertis indeed.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

drunk thought: I want to hear Till Lindemann singing this, in the closest manner to Mein Herz Brennt as could be managed, with as much genml bullshit strewn in for serious insanity

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[W]hat is perhaps my most fundamental philosophical conviction is this: life is Good, human life especially so. The most natural things in the universe are death, decay, and emptiness. Growth, life, and creation are fragile anomalies. We belong to an eons-long heritage of those who have committed to building and maintaining life in the face of inevitable decay. Our duty is to do the same.

Putting aside the obvious elders of zionny subtext.. I'm an unabashed humanist and this is one of the most childishly anthropocentric things I've ever read. Death and decay are human concepts you big dummy. Sucks for you that you apparently can't imagine our universe outside of your silly meat-bound linear-time phenomenology, but do try to respect and enjoy reality instead of talking like a 1920s pulp protagonist.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

TW went on Hanania's fucking podcast

these threads are made of lie down in a flea circus, get up denying the existence of fleas