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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Merry Christmas, happy Hannukah, and happy holidays in general!)

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
    11·
    20 hours ago

    lol, Oliver Habryka at Lightcone is sending out begging emails, i found it in my spam folder

    (This email is going out to approximately everyone who has ever had an account on LessWrong. Don’t worry, we will send an email like this at most once a year, and you can permanently unsubscribe from all LessWrong emails here)

    declared Lightcone Enemy #1 thanks you for your attention in sending me this missive, Mr Habryka

    In 2024, FTX sued us to claw back their donations, and around the same time Open Philanthropy’s biggest donor asked them to exit our funding area. We almost went bankrupt.

    yes that’s because you first tried ignoring FTX instead of talking to them and cutting a deal

    that second part means Dustin Moskovitz (the $ behind OpenPhil) is sick of Habryka’s shit too

    If you want to learn more, I wrote a 13,000-word retrospective over on LessWrong.

    no no that’s fine thanks

    We need to raise $2M this year to continue our operations without major cuts, and at least $1.4M to avoid shutting down. We have so far raised ~$720k.

    and you can’t even tap into Moskovitz any more? wow sucks dude. guess you’re just not that effective as altruism goes

    And to everyone who donated last year: Thank you so much. I do think humanity’s future would be in a non-trivially worse position if we had shut down.

    you run an overpriced web hosting company and run conferences for race scientists. my bayesian intuition tells me humanity will probably be fine, or perhaps better off.