this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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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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Zack from SMBC once called habitual AI users 'clanker crankers' in a comic and I'm still disappointed it didn't catch on.
He definitely has a history of mocking rationalist mythology but I don't know if he is aware how actually problematic they are as a subculture.
Meaning, I can see him giving the benefit of a doubt to a random rationalist event and going to promote his books (about how immigration is good and space colonization is bad lmao) as long as there are enough levels of abstraction between the event and the subculture's rampant eugenicism and incelism, but I don't know he knows that means that his mug appearing right next to siskind, yud, aela and hanson would be a really bad look.
TLP dropped off the face of the earth after he stopped his blog on an incelly note so who knows. Siskind did a huge review of Sadly, Porn when people started realizing it was probably the vaunted TLP book, I feel they'd love to co-opt him.