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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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If learning incorrect things is EY's only definition of trauma, his existence must be eternal torment. (nitter.net)

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@EY
This advice won't be for everyone, but: anytime you're tempted to say "I was traumatized by X", try reframing this in your internal dialogue as "After X, my brain incorrectly learned that Y".

I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.

@EY
This is of course a dangerous sort of tweet, but I predict that including variables into it will keep out the worst of the online riff-raff - the would-be bullies will correctly predict that their audiences' eyes would glaze over on reading a QT with variables.

Fool! This bully (is it weird to speak in the third person ?) thinks using variables here makes it MORE sneer worthy, especially since this appear to be a general advice, but i would struggle to think of a single instance in my life where it's been applicable.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scene: Yud, a middle aged man, walks around in a forest. epistemic status: no knowledge of bear traps.

Yud steps in a bear trap. His shin bones break, blood begins geysering out from his leg, and he howls in pain.

Yud, gritting teeth: “I have attained correct knowledge about bear traps. My biases are now less wrong. Thusly, this is not trauma!”

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're in a forest, walking along in the leaves, when all of a sudden you look down...

You look down and see Yud, Swlabr. he's crawling toward you...

Yud lays on its back, his leg bleeding in the hot sun, struggling to get a bear trap of his leg, but he can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

You're correcting his usage of the word trauma! Why is that, Swlabr?

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

I thought this was going to be a shia lebeouf reference, pleased to see it’s a VK reference.

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

Haha, I was thinking about dropping in a ref to actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI in there but, simply didnt.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

All I’m saying is, one man’s flesh is another man’s nootropics.