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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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Oliver Habryka truly understands the soul of SneerClub (www.lesswrong.com)
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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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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We should be so lucky, the ensuing barrage of lawsuits about illegally cribbing company IP would probably make the book author class action damages pale in comparison.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but how would they figure out that it's happening?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

I figure eventually some proprietary work would make it into the wild via autocomplete. Copilot used to be cool with inserting other programmer's names and emails in author notes for instance, though they seem to have started filtering that out in the mean time.

Copilot licenses let you specifically opt out from your prompts and your code being used to train new models, so it would be a big deal.