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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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definitely time we started charging this person rent (www.lesswrong.com)
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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And the arguments seem to boil down to them saying "if you wanna transition, just do it", and Zack is all like "nooooooo you must convince me not to via Rationality!!!!"

(sorry if I'm being flippant, this person seems to be in a lot of mental distress, but they're also kinda big deal in the community? Like fucking gwern weighed in a bit sarcastically?)

[–] pja@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

Who knows? They seem to know all these people personally, so I guess they attend rationalist cuddle puddles in SV or something.

I ran into them online a year ago when a Twitter follow shared their last essay with some acerbic comments about the lengths (both in the mental & absurd word count senses) they were going to do deny their desire to transition & they appeared in the comments after I made a snarky remark along the lines of “methinks the lady doth protest too much”. Still quite proud of that one.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yeah i noticed yesterday there's a link to (one of) Zack's blog(s) in SSC's sidebar.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so what precisely is Zack supposed to be good at in Rationality other than Blancharding?

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Word count.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

when you need to add an exponential notation option to wc

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

wc --tldr

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/wc.c#n507

The word count variable is an intmax_t, so assuming ISO C (it's GNU so probably not but whatever) it has to be at least C99 and thus support at least 64 bit long long.

Looking forward to the nine quintillion word LW posts. Wonder if I should submit a patch to make wc(1) use GMP for future proofing purposes…