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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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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

You might think that this review of Yud's glowfic is an occasion for a "read a second book" response:

Yudkowsky is good at writing intelligent characters in a specific way that I haven't seen anyone else do as well.

But actually, the word intelligent is being used here in a specialized sense to mean "insufferable".

Take a stereotypical fantasy novel, a textbook on mathematical logic, and Fifty Shades of Grey.

Ah, the book that isn't actually about kink, but rather an abusive relationship disguised as kink — which would be a great premise for an erotic thriller, except that the author wasn't sufficiently self-aware to know that's what she was writing.

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

Gah. I've been nerd sniped into wanting to explain what LessWrong gets wrong.

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