Previously posted in the stubstack, twice. See threads for earlier sneers. No objection to making a top-level post and gathering further sneers, of course.
Eliezer calling himself genre savy and above tropes as an actual serious coping mechanism is simply too good to not bring back up. the weirdest way to deny being depressed I've seen
"Could a depressed person do THIS?" [brandishes Harry Potter fanfic]
So I was wondering, did they at LW ever make something from the ELIZA effect? Cant recall them talking about it, and the importance of it on bias and the obsession with AGI seems important.
(If they didnt, it seems an important gap in 'teaching the methods of ~~agreeing with me~~ sanity').
Nate Soares's interview with Hank Green seems to engage in a bunch of LLM humanisation, so doesn't look like it
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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