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submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

How it started: gonna build the robotgod but nice

How it went: wow we need to teach people how to think.

How it ended: we cant do basic things people have done since we decided to walk upright because some people are mean.

Even 4chan can trade/coordinate/and have functional outcomes, sure often for evil. But most of us are not even active on lw. Skill issue. If you cant beat a bunch of sneerders who are not even participating what chance do they have against the godAI (same with not being able to convince one human).

eponymous sneerlcub

Eponymous even. Guess they don't know who named sneerclub.

Some more sneering, why use make footnotes like you are actually linking to proof, it is done all over the place and it tricks me a lot 'ah they backed it up with a source' nope some random footnote which is so wordy it breaks the site on mobile.

the more likely it is that someone can get away with committing a crime, the harsher the punishment needs to be for that crime.

The death penalty of not just you but your whole family if you copy that floppy.

Now, does that mean that everyone is free to vote however they want?

The answer is a straightforward "no".

Holy shit, hahaha what are you wasting your time on...

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How would this situation play out in a world like dath ilan? A world where The Art has progressed to something much more formidable.

Yeah indeed how would they solve these problems in Ravenloft.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

The death penalty of not just you but your whole family if you copy that floppy.

thermonuclear ballistic missile on lightcone infra for all the time and brains they have wasted

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

Even 4chan can trade/coordinate/and have functional outcomes, sure often for evil.

To give a rather notorious example, there's the He Will Not Divide Us flag in 2017, which the 'channers tracked down after only 38 hours, despite Shia LeBouf's attempts to keep the location hidden.

The death penalty of not just you but your whole family if you copy that floppy.

The future media conglomerates want. (okay maybe not the "death penalty" part - dead people don't make money)

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 3 hours ago

Eponymous even. Guess they don’t know who named sneerclub.

Mister Sneerclub of the Newport Sneerclubs, of course.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 minutes ago

Eliezer Sneerclub!

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

we cant do basic things

That's giving them too much credit! They've generated the raw material for all the marketing copy and jargon pumped out by the LLM companies producing the very thing they think will doom us all! They've served a small but crucial role in the influence farming of the likes of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. They've served as an entry point to the alt-right pipeline!

dath ilan?

As a self-certified Eliezer understander, I can tell you dath ilan would open up a micro-prediction market on various counterfactual ban durations. Somehow this prediction market would work excellently despite a lack of liquidity and multiple layers of skewed incentives that should outweigh any money going into it. Also Said would have been sent to a ~~reeducation camp~~, quiet city and ~~sterilized~~ denied UBI if he reproduces for not conforming to dath ilan's norms much earlier.

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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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