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LW adds Grok(!!!!) support (as in "@Grok, destroy this loser with facts and logic") and for some reason the denizens are Not Happy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fSaxGFMysTTeKxoMF/you-can-now-grok-on-lesswrong#comments

That's the link I was thinking of , thanks for digging that up.

I think it's more that someone made a Bayesian analysis and concluded with 60% certainty or something that it was a lab leak. Can't remember the link now but I believe it was widely discussed at the time.

So Dario and co. are literally Sauron. That tracks.

You haven't read Neuromancer??? God, I envy you, to have that in front of you.

Article next to it is an anonymous review of Jünger's In Stahlgewitter, which is certainly A Choice.

(Jünger wasn't a card carrying Nazi, but served in the Wehrmacht in WW2 and is kind of a right-wing ideal of an aesthete)

On second thought I won't post it myself, it's a bit too mean-spirited and facile. I haven't been party to the discussions on IRC so I am probably missing a bunch of nuance.

I do compare the mods to Robespierre and co which might be seen as less of a compliement. I do believe they're working under a lot of pressure and it's hard to make decisions that please everyone.

I am mostly not unhappy that it's not been a complete victory for the sloppers

I'll consider it. I'd like to sleep on it and see if events overtake it overnight, which can definitely happen

I summed up my views in the latest lobste.rs kerfuffle in a blog post:

https://gerikson.com/blog/comm/Radical-centrism.html

This is a weird side-effect of Lobste.rs culture, it really dislikes being just a collection of links on the front page that increase traffic. And there have been multiple attempts to place links there via deception. Plus the community will give you hell (and flag your submissions as spam) unless you do the needful and comment a bit.

That said it's really easy to work around by just making good content, having an RSS feed, and letting the community discover your stuff and post it. Or ask a buddy with an account to do it for you. But that in its turn requires actually learning how the community works.

It's been a day, and the mods are not sitting still:

https://lobste.rs/moderations

Thanks!