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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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Lightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money back (awful.systems)

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Funding beg: (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser
The story: Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Holy smokes that's a lot of words. From their own post it sounds like they massively over-leveraged and have no more sugar daddies so now their convention center is doomed (yearly 1 million dollar interest payments!); but they can't admit that so are desperately trying to delay the inevitable.

Also don't miss this promise from the middle:

Concretely, one of the top projects I want to work on is building AI-driven tools for research and reasoning and communication, integrated into LessWrong and the AI Alignment Forum. [...] Building an LLM-based editor. [...] AI prompts and tutors as a content type on LW

It's like an anti-donation message. "Hey if you donate to me I'll fill your forum with digital noise!"