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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you misunderstand. It's not for me.

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I've been to plenty of shrinks and never been diagnosed with anything outside of neurodivergence: giftedness, ADHD, and autism. I appreciate TLP because it had helped me understand and manage my narcissistic parent.

Nonetheless I agree with your critique of the writing style; it's got all the fake edge of a 20s frat boy learning about existentialism for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well I’m not really critiquing his writing style. I’m using a reasonably complementary analysis of his writing style to sternly criticise his thought. That means I fundamentally disagree with your own paragraph in praise of his thought, whereas I actually disagree with you that his writing is poor - I think he’s an intelligent and effective writer.

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He may have taught you to “manage” your narcissistic parent, that’s not for me to say, but that only means that he’s given you certain instruments which happen to help you deal with your relationship to somebody else’s problem. It actually tells us nothing about whether he genuinely understands that problem, and understanding that problem is both the task that he has set himself and the alleged skill you praise him for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you don't respect the NSFW rules, then I'm not going to reply to you again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m not massively invested one way or the other in your refusal to reply because I violated rules I didn’t know existed that you didn’t explain and which don’t make any sense to me

I guess I can edit the original comment to ALSO put…explanatory text?…in a NSFW box