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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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Oliver Habryka truly understands the soul of SneerClub (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

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[–] self@awful.systems 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

from the (extensive) footnotes:

Occupy Wallstreet strikes me as another instance of the same kind of popular sneer culture. Occupy Wallstreet had no coherent asks, no worldview that was driving their actions.

it’s so easy to LessWrong: just imagine that your ideological opponents have no worldview and aren’t trying to build anything, sprinkle in some bullshit pseudo-statistics, and you’re there!

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Lesswrong and SSC: capable of extreme steelmanning of... check notes... occult mysticism (including divinatory magic), Zen-Buddhism based cults, people who think we should end democracy and have kings instead, Richard Lynn, Charles Murray, Chris Langan, techbros creating AI they think is literally going to cause mankind's extinction...

Not capable of even a cursory glance into their statements, much less steelmanning: sneerclub, Occupy Wallstreet

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

Those examples are the Ingroup. We are the Outgroup.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

It is gonna be worse, they can back up their statements by referring to people who were actually there, but they person they then would be referring to is Tim Pool, and you can't as an first principles intellectual of the order of LessWrong, reveal that actually you get your information from disgraced yt'ers like all the other rightwing plebs. It has to remain an unspoken secret.