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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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good news, everyone! eliezer is writing fiction again (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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"glowfic" apparently. written in a roleplay forum format.

This is not a story for kids, even less so than HPMOR. There is romance, there is sex, there are deliberately bad kink practices whose explicit purpose is to get people to actually hurt somebody else so that they'll end up damned to Hell, and also there's math.

start here. or don't, of course.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fake answer: at some point in rat history they thought that Armenian people were genetically superior and decided to take traditional Armenian surnames as their handles, but they both simultaneously and serendipitously bungled the spelling. The names should actually be “Yvian” (pronounced yiv-yahn) and “Iarwian” (pronounced ee-arh-wee-yahn)

Real answer: probably a tolkien elvish name idk

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

elvish name

https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/i/iarwainbenadar.php the elvish name of Tom Bombadil.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could it be that Yud read about Bombadil, thought, “man it’s a good thing this dude is with the good guys, or middle earth would be screwed” and then decided to spin that into a technocult about AI?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bombadil is a fat dude living in splendid isolation with a beautiful woman, unconcerned about the evils of the wider world. Perfect ideal for Yud.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

His story is also vague as fuck, and according to some his more modeled on pixes etc from our world, so it would fit for him to pick an isekaied from our world into lotr char for his isekai from rationalist fantasy world to hell character.

lol, nah he prob just picked the name because it was the most powerful and most mysterious character from lotr. With hints of 'this outside context problem with unknown goals must be appeased at all costs or everything ends' just like agi! Also he seems to be immortal.