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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.)

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jesus this is gross man

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

though he’s correct in saying the ethics of language models aren’t a self-solving issue, even though he expresses it in critihype-laden terms.

the subtext is always that he also says that knows how to solve it and throw money at cfar pleaseeee or basilisk will torture your vending machine business for seven quintillion years

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago

Yes, that is also the case.