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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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SlateScott talking race and IQ: very cool and truth seeking. Revealing SlateScott's powerword: what's the public interest in that? (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Evinceo@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: discussion on reddit.

My favorite section, talking about how people are mad that be brought up Scott's notorious race stuff™️:

CM: That's great. That's a valid position. There are other valid positions where people say, we need to not go so close to that, because it's dangerous and there's a slippery slope. The irony of this whole situation is that some people who feel that I should not have gone there, who think I should not explore the length and breadth of that situation, are the people who think you should always go there.

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The amount of hand-wringing about "why is it so important to trace how these people are connected to Peter Thiel or Elon or other incredibly wealthy right-wing ideologues who have a measurable impact on people's lives."

Why can't the journalists just join our special club where we talk about changing the world in the most disconnected way imaginable. It's like they think we're trying to take over the world or something.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can't have it both ways. Either you're completely publicly irrelevant or you're of public interest, and if you're making yourself a public figure you shouldn't be shocked when the public takes an interest in who you are, why you say the things you do, and who you associate with.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago

no, haven't you heard? Great minds discuss IDEAS not PEOPLE. You're basically a Vogue cover article if you even dare delve into networks of powerful people beyond taking them at face value.