2026-09-02 10:01 UTC
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@Evinceo@awful.systems 2026-09-02 11:16
Just in time for Irreplaceable to show up!
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-09-02 15:03
Not sure about the Libertarian connection, but the comments feature Eliezer Yudkowsky and at least one member of the MAPLE cult (Goldenberg). A “no attacks on people’s characters” policy seems like a terrible idea in this space because so many people are grifters, liars, and apocalyptic cultists. At some point you have to say “you are a bad person who uses false words to do bad things.”
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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-09-02 17:14
This is terrible, absolutely horrible, disendorsement is only a few short steps from defenestration. How could these people do this
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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-09-03 03:13
My first thought was maybe one of them isn’t focused enough on doomerism and is too concerned with practical shit, which in lesswrong and AI doomer spaces is a nono (practical concerns about GenAI and data centers are okay as a way to draw in normies, but they want to make sure you speak the shibboleths that indicate your real concern is Skynet). Thus whichever one is the less doomer one would get a smidgen of credit in my eyes. I was disappointed to learn the real reason… We endorse pointing out harmful actions. But we condemn attacks on people’s character. …although it is probably a good thing that someone is willing to call Sam Altman a slimeball and Anthropic lying hypocrites? So I’ll give PauseAI-US a tiny bit of credit for that. …or maybe not When I read Holly’s Twitter feed, I get why someone would have a gut reaction like “this is an unhinged person who’s stooping to the level of personal attacks on people who seem nice and are just trying to do their best”. Whatever credit this PauseAI-US person gets for willingness to call people out, they lose for doing so through twitter.