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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)
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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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This word salad ("supervast majority" - wat?) seems to be inspired by this LW post

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t5W87hQF5gKyTofQB/

The intersection of UFO nuts and rats should be glorious. The fact that Yud takes this seriously instead of just ignoring this idiot is proof that SF brainworms are the foundation for this community's worldview.