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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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in which yud bets $150k (at 150:1 odds) that aliens don't exist (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by elmtonic@lemmy.world to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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he takes a couple pages to explain why he know that sightings of UFOs aren't alien because he can simply infer how superintelligent beings will operate + how advanced their technology is. he then undercuts his point by saying that he's very uncertain about both of those things, but wraps it up nicely with an excessively wordy speech about how making big bets on your beliefs is the responsible way to be a thought leader. bravo

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad to hear that "you paid for Twitter" is a sneer that I can use in all sincerity.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuuuuuse me it's now "you paid for X"

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my brain kept trying to fill in what X was supposed to stand for

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone in the world, including Elon, is wondering the same.