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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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You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like (nitter.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sue_me_please@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Let's build a tower of nonsense on top of numbers we vibe with and pulled out of our ass

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[โ€“] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After lurking on rationalist discord servers I discovered that the Rationalist existential-risk-themed Burning Man camp was also called "Black Lotus", which is apparently a reference to an overpowered MtG card. (side note: theming your Burning Man camp on existential risk sounds like a bad trip waiting to happen)

Anyways I think the Black Lotus camp might have been the one that Brent Dill tried to bring an underage student to, as referenced below:

https://rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent

https://medium.com/@mittenscautious/warning-2-153ed9f5f1f3

[โ€“] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

"Welcome to our Burning Man camp, Bugs Crawling Under Your Skin"