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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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Like, I could completely understand being like "I'm not comfortable with you using my name for something like this. Even though you say it's not about me there are enough similarities to the character that it could easily mislead people - myself included, as you can see - into thinking otherwise." There is a reasonable version of this, but insisting that "lol someone wrote a play about me" and using it for clout years later is peak sneerable behavior.
Also I want to sneer at Yud not understanding the concept of Off-Off-Broadway vs Off-Broadway but TBH I don't understand the way that different tiers of theatrical prestige connect and can only assume that it's like the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno.
I mean I even get that you would use some embellishment for entertainment value. But if the person who made the play writes you and corrects you, you should stop doing that, esp if you are doing the whole Rationalism. But yeah, that isn't what the rich and powerful do, they make up shit and ignore corrections all the time. The power of being stubborn.
A while back somebody from themotte (when it still was on reddit) said about sneerclub vs themotte that the sneerclub wanted to do what is right, and they wanted to figure out what is true. And I often think about that when people in the Rationalist space do not really want to figure out what is true.
FWIW my understanding is the "Off"-ness is just decreasing theatre size, but gets (mis)construed as less prestige/fame/quality etc. Fame is probably fine for construing, but prestige/quality is orthogonal. Like you could conceivably have absolute theatre mega stars do an epoch-defining production in an intimate 50-seat theatre or something, and that would still be "Off-off-broadway".
So would me in the morning doing impressions for my cat be Homeopathic Broadway?
Well unfortunately it’s not diluted enough to be homeopathic, so it’s just off^3^ broadway
Would me lying about doing impressions for YourNetworkIsHaunted's cat be enough? I both dont know the cat and didnt actually do impressions? (Brb gotta update my dating profile).