Today in LessWrong moderation: Previously-banned user Alfred MacDonald, disappointed that his YouTube video criticizing LessWrong didn’t get the reception he wanted any of the last three times he posted it (once under his own name, twice pretending to be someone different but using the same IP address), posted it a fourth time, using his LW1.0 account.
He then went into a loop, disconnecting and reconnecting his VPN to get a new IP address, filling out the new-user form, and upvoting his own post, one karma per 2.6 minutes for 1 hour 45 minutes, with no breaks.
Today in LessWrong moderation: Previously-banned user Alfred MacDonald, disappointed that his YouTube video criticizing LessWrong didn’t get the reception he wanted any of the last three times he posted it (once under his own name, twice pretending to be someone different but using the same IP address), posted it a fourth time, using his LW1.0 account.
He then went into a loop, disconnecting and reconnecting his VPN to get a new IP address, filling out the new-user form, and upvoting his own post, one karma per 2.6 minutes for 1 hour 45 minutes, with no breaks.
I was curious… it is a 2 hour rant (that itself selects for an audience of obsessed people), audio only, and the topics mentioned are:
why LW discusses AI? that is not rationality
IQ has diminishing returns (in terms of how many pages you can read per hour)
lots of complaining about a norm of not publishing screenshots of debates, in some rationalist chat
why don’t effective altruists give money to the homeless?
utilitarianism doesn’t make sense because people can’t quantify pain
animals probably don’t even feel pain, just like circumcised babies
vitamin A charity is probably nonsense, because the kids will be malnutritioned anyway
do not use nerdy metaphors, because that discourages non-white people
I didn’t listen to the entire video.
This..is a human?
To judge that, it is worth also glancing over the rest of his Youtube channel, his Substack, and his web site.