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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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[–] mwenge@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i've just realized - the endless prose is drug-fuelled. blog post part vii == i am doing drugs and cannot stop typing

[–] self@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“endless drug-fueled prose about drugs” is an entire, unfortunate subgenre of Rationalist authorship. it takes them a surprisingly long time (usually a couple years or so) to spiral out and stop posting, but the posts usually get even less coherent as they approach burnout

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The story goes that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the second draft of "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" in less than a week while buzzing on cocaine. The Rationalists just write obnoxious blog posts.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

The famous story about a man using a drug that sets free the a-hole version of himself?

Oh, that was the drug! It was cocaine all along!

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

that's because they don't have coke, they have adderall and their own farts