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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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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (13 children)

That's a lot of words about what is or isn't a reliable source from one who doesn't seem to know what a reliable source is. For a person of these beliefs, it is not surprising at all that their criteria seem to be:

  • anything that agrees with them is reliable
  • anything David Gerard considers unreliable is reliable because David Gerard is a big meanie and won't include citations to HBD articles, uwu
  • anything that David Gerard or any friendly associate of David Gerard publishes is UNreliable, again because he is a meanie; see above, uwu

Dawg, maybe you need to step back from this all. As Voltaire once said, reality has a well-known liberal bias. Your beliefs are probably just counter to reality, and the corpus of data is not in your favour.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Also, billing David Gerard as "the Forrest Gump of the internet" in a tweet and not mentioning that you can plausibly blame him for the whole Musk X Grimes collab is a true fumble

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

also he lifted that line from me lol

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lmao. Literally the only thing that had any truth or wit to it was plagiarised

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

he could have just said "as he calls himself", but nooo

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

now it's

He calls himself the Forrest Gump of the internet, and honestly, I can’t particularly disagree.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

we'll get there, comment by comment! Or not.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago

Only one problem with this, he will not mention he edited days after publishing it, so then people go 'sneer club is whining about X, but the article clearly says Y they are lying again!' so hope somebody made an archive of the initial post. Wait, I can just check that. People did so interested parties could diff it.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There's also the Julian Assange connection, so we can probably blame him for Trump being president as well.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

shakes fist at gerard that David is a real scallywag!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry never heard of the Assange -> Trump gets elected connection, care to explain? (E: turns out I had, I had just forgotten how crazy everything was back then, and how hypocritical they all are compared to now)

I heard the bs thing that GG caused Trump (def not big enough, also international) or that the media mocking him and daring to run helped, etc. (It prob was a combination of everything).

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Gerard -> Assange -> creates Wikileaks -> Wikileaks receives and publishes hacked or leaked DNC emails -> DNC emails shows Clinton cheating Sanders in the primary -> depresses turnout among potential democratic voters in the general election -> Trump wins.

On can question each step on how influential it's for the next, but if one doesn't Trump was all his fault.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Assange becomes a Russian asset because him being a low key sex pest somehow gives some European authorities cause to want to send him packing to the US where he is wanted for espionage should probably be one of the steps but in general yes.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Ow right, forgot about those whole damn emails. Amazing that after that shit Trump just takes the boxes home and puts them inside his shower. But wait I hear you think. Shower, that was in the toilet. No, look again at the image behind the first row of boxes is a shower curtain (you can see on the left side the marble gets higher, as you should tile a shower (it is mandatory like that in .nl at least)) and what do we see behind that curtain on the right? More boxes! Sindriiiii!

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