this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who’s actively being a drain on the site
here’s his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline “wordy racist fest”:
A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don’t need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.
He gets us! He really gets us!
you can tell the real problem was I called them racist
in greggs?
You called them racist without proving from first principles it is bad to be racist, that they are racist, and their specific form of racism is also bad and will not lead to better outcomes in than being non-racist in the megafuture.
Hey if a tree is racist in the woods and two nerd blogs that pretend to be diametrically opposed on the political spectrum but are actually just both fascist don’t spend millions of words discussing it, is it really racist or should we assume more good faith
You live rent-free in so many big ol noggins.
All that acreage has to be adding up. Have you ever considered going into real estate?