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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.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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When she's not busy fantasizing about libertarian crypto-based UBI schemes or propping up the patriarchy, she's writing wearying odes to transhumanism and longtermism. Truly the voice of a generation.

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[–] prw@mastodon.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@swlabr If by 'recent' you mean 'since the foundation of the Libertarian Party'. Libertarians were all-in for Reagan, their poster boy Ron Paul caucused with the GOP, etc etc etc.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Rothbard deliberately and consciously stole the term from anarchists for his new right-wing version, anarchocapitalism.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Yes that’s more or less what I meant. I am not a pro historian or anything but libertarianism pre-dates the libertarian party. My understanding is that the origins of libertarianism only bear a passing resemblance to the modern formulation.

(If it is sounding like I am defending libertarianism just fucking kill me)