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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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

thankful that you need to sign up using a google account or email to read, this will shield more people from the radioactive glowfic

Edit TOO LATE there's a Tvtropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Roleplay/ProjectLawful

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

tvtropes

The reason Keltham wants to have two dozen wives and 144 children, is that he knows Civilization doesn't think someone with his psychological profile is worth much to them, and he wants to prove otherwise. What makes having that many children a particularly forceful argument is that he knows Civilization won't subsidize him to have children, as they would if they thought his neurotype was worth replicating. By succeeding far beyond anyone's wildest expectations in spite of that, he'd be proving they were not just mistaken about how valuable selfishness is, but so mistaken that they need to drastically reevaluate what they thought they knew about the world, because obviously several things were wrong if it led them to such a terrible prediction.

huh

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

and moreover, wat

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The case for turning glowfic into Sequences

Eliezer stopped writing Sequences and probably cannot write more. This is a combination of Eliezer's chronic fatigue syndrome and being tired of trolls / bad takes in comments. The only medium he can write in without being drained is glowfic. Thus, even though it's a non-serious format, glowfic is Eliezer's main intellectual output right now.

what your donations of ETH buy

If Eliezer can't write nonfiction because of trolls and bad takes, won't turning glowfic into Sequences just make him stop writing glowfic?
No, I asked him.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A free full-cast Audiobook of Planecrash is currently in production [,,.] using AI-generated voices.

maybe we, as a species, deserve what is coming to us

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago

So this is how the acausal AI god chooses to punish us. Huh.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

lmao no fucking way

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reading a bit of this page convinced me to never read this Isekai into hell story from Yud. It isn't even that im against edgy hell themed stories I mean Dante Alighieri did it well, and the planescape setting in dnd is not bad imho (it does have the same devils/demons split as this story so very original Yud). But the rest reads just as tiringly 'Lesswrong nerd out rationalizes DnD rules'. Using a specifically crafted sentence in a wish spell to get antimatter bombs to destroy a fort which protects the 'makes you a god/kills gods' stone.

(I don't mind people who do enjoy it btw, it just screams very not for me)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And yet my crossovers of Daria with The Sandman, They Live and the Amelia Peabody series all remain without a TVTropes presence. Where's my uncritical adulation?!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago

i saw Adult 4chan Man and felt existential risk

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago

Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, "Kelthar" is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.