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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

WTF is an “EA”?

Didn’t people learn in high school that if you use Initials or an acronym you need to define it after the first use?

I’m seeing more and more of this sort of sloppy writing with little or no consideration for the reader without intimate knowledge of the writers’ niche wank genre.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

if only literally the fucking sidebar of the sub had a link explaining precisely what this was all about

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard If you're looking at awful.systems via a Mastodon client you never see the sidebar. Or even any indication that it isn't a Mastodon server.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

i would say in that case "sucks to be them" and "their refund is enclosed"

it's not a dot less pointless and obnoxious in that context either

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“halt your conversation and explain yourself to me, whoever the fuck I am, right this instant” is also an utter shithead move on mastodon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@self Really? And here I thought Mastodon existed for the convenience of Reply Guys like that!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

and he's not even from mastodon.social or c.im!

note that aussie.zone is actually a lemmy instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And I’m right here!

So a post appears in ‘ALL’ and I click on it. I’m not an aficionado of ‘sneer club’ so I don’t know what it’s about.

I’ve now gone through to the sidebar and I’m left rather uninformed due to the purposely opaque cliquey in-joke nature of the text there. I mean, those are definitely words, I’ll give you that.

The link at the top doesn’t help because i don’t have time to parse a whole article when a 10 word summation of the community would do.

But thanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The link at the top doesn’t help because i don’t have time to parse a whole article when a 10 word summation of the community would do.

you sure did have time to write a 150 word micro-essay about why you’re a bannable dickhead though

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

for anyone else who stumbles on our threads from all and is (justifiably) confused: please for the love of fuck lurk before posting a demand that we do labor for you

if you’ve lurked and searched TESCREAL and Eliezer Yudkowsky and other shit from the sidebar and you still need clarification, maybe posting a shitty rant in the style of someone’s dad about how kids these days don’t stop and explain themselves to their elders in a random thread is the wrong move

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

so in effect you went to some random forum you had never heard of, read one post in it, didn't click around or anything, and replied "I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. DO BETTER"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to take a guess and say it's "effective altruism". Maybe???

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

OK. Sounds good.