1. Post in [email protected] attacks the entire concept of AI safety as a made-up boogeyman
  2. I disagree and am attacked from all sides for “posting like an evangelist”
  3. I give citations for things I thought would be obvious, such as that AI technology in general has been improving in capability compared to several years ago
  4. Instance ban, “promptfondling evangelist”

This one I’m not aggrieved about as much, it’s just weird. It’s reminiscent of the lemmy.ml type of echo chamber where everyone’s convinced it’s one way, because in a self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone who is not convinced gets yelled at and receives a ban.

Full context: https://ponder.cat/post/1030285 (Some of my replies were after the ban because I didn’t PT Barnum carefully enough, so didn’t realize.)

  • BomberMan9865
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    3 days ago

    I’ve never posted there before but it seems like they are a legitimately terrible instance, don’t blame yourself.

    Since you’re an admin you’re in a better position than most people since you can ban then unban yourself using another admin account to remove their ban of you if you really want to. It’s seen as sleezy to do that but awful.systems is sleezy too, so maybe justified?