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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Inside baseball, and I don't really have a dog in this fight, but LW is crowing over a legal loss for RationalWiki

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KW5tjMmTqsoRa6zrd/pablo-s-shortform?commentId=wB9jcCPrXzNCLCQXL

They link to a TracingWoodgrain(!) tweet which is basically just a screenshot of a talk page

https://xcancel.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1913717061626347642

I don't know the significance of this, if any. I don't recognize the names of any of the plaintiffs(?) in the screenshot, so I find it a bit amusing that probably the only google juice they had were RW.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

An lesswrong:

countless articles that have ruined careers, stifled research, and brought entire fields of inquiry into undeserved disrepute.

uh-huh

An different lesswrong:

LLMs can provide reasonable fact-checks.

Christ on a futa dick

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

when people do stuff like dismissing x-risk because their top Google search result pointed them at RationalWiki, what exactly was the proper non-free-speech-limiting solution to this problem?

How can we leverage the monopoly of violence of the state to promote our religious views?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Christ on a futa dick

He is risen!

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