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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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I haven’t had my caffeine yet today, but yud’s replies and all the blue checks not worth quoting are making me cringe so hard the exertion is forcing me awake
The 'Some readers' example being Aella, and her admitting she is also a very slow reader made it just that much better. And then the various bluechecks admitting they are also now addicted to reading HPMOR.
If they are enjoying that, their second fiction book will be even better!
It's sad when people pretend to have read some great piece of literature (like War and Peace), but at least it's understandable from a social perspective - the pretender wishes to conform to an ideal of a cultivated person.
It's hard to say if it's sadder or just more pathetic to pretend to have read a piece of dreck like HPMOR.
I read War and Peace but have only vague memories of it, because I read it in eighth grade. We had an "accelerated reader" program, you see, in which we were supposed to read books and then take quizzes on them to accumulate points. The longer books counted for more. Nearly all of the list we could pick from looked incredibly boring, so I decided to get a year's worth of points in one go.
Congratulations?
Something I will say about War and Peace that's rarely mentioned - probably because it is a work that is meant to mark one out as a cultured person - within the first 50 pages of the book, there's a scene where a group of the main characters tie a policeman to the back of a bear. For some reason, it's the part of the book that's stuck with me the longest in association with its story.
@Soyweiser @self weird… I can see your other reply on a.s but not this one
@Soyweiser @self and these replies I’m making to your post also aren’t showing up, but they are incrementing the new posts number for the thread. maybe this subthread got detached somehow due to a Lemmy bug? I wouldn’t be too surprised
Yeah nevermind, it showed up, must have forgotten to reload the tab I was looking at or something. The perils of having different tabs open. Problem between chair and keyboard.