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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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EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault (x.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can there be a rule about acronyms being defined on first usage? I spent way to long trying to figure out how Electronic Arts had some cult infestation in their upper management and how “wokeism” applied, especially since stuff like that has been in the game developer news cycle again. I started getting really confused when I saw some linked post conversation talking about some founder and their polyamorous relationship.

I’ve figured out that we’re talking about effective altruism, but at this point I’ve wasted my entire pre-bed shit time on people I couldn’t care less about.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately in this case the problem is you (as a non-frequenter of this sub (which is explicitly about dunking on these fools)) coming in with no context, although I’d agree with you in principle otherwise

Also it sounds like that game-EA thing could do with a sneer on techtakes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

(idly, didn't mean that aggressively. wrote it pre-coffee, but, yeah)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying to think of a polite way to say "in short, no" and "the linked tweet having "effectivealtruism" in it twice should have been a clue", because I'm not that mean, but I probably need more coffee too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"I'll take 'cases where the wallpaper would have been a clue' for $200, Alex"..

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

I mean in my defense I literally said I realized what was being talking about in my post.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

What killed lurking before posting, and can we blame WOKE? (just kidding!)

I do wonder if seamless federation can be too seamless, since it clearly makes it easier for people to get a bit lost and wander into niche forums unintentionally.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely magnificent that this guy took a break from posting about OLED WLAN DNS SKU TCL and 800 ISO without bokah at like f/16 to come in here and chastise us for using in-group terms.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

800 ISO without bokah at like f/16

on film, handheld, at night. for when you love grainy images and need every part of the frame to be blurry, but specifically not the kind of blur that looks good

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

fuck, now I have a hankering to grab a medium format camera and a fast (for medium format) lens and take some weird black and white closeups of whatever I see that’s lit interestingly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

and even with multiple outs, they had to get indignant. some people...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably also to blame is whichever clients people end up using - sorta seems like most don’t make it easy to see the details of a sub (although I say that under correction, not having tried them all)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m using Arctic, I’m easily able to look at the community sidebar, which I did. It seemed like it was dedicated to just roasting shit, not anything in particular, which didn’t help my confusion. I was hoping it was a community dedicated to taking the piss out of something/someone specific. Looking at it now, I see that following the link in the first sentence kind of explains it, but if you’re just skimming the sidebar the note about AI shit being acceptable really makes it read like it’s not targeted towards whatever the fuck this effective altruism thing is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Also it sounds like that game-EA thing could do with a sneer on techtakes

Careful with that one, it might bring out the people who want to redo 2015, but worse.