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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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Charlie Stross on his role in creating the Torment Nexus, with a long description of our very good friends (www.antipope.org)

submitted 10 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta have to push back on that. Certain genres are, but even the ones that are written nowadays and explicitely in the space opera genre tend to try to grapple with the ethics of colonialism.

Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three is set aboard a colony starship that's revealed to be chock-full of genocidal weapons to ensure that the target planet isn't a problem for humans to settle on. "Are we the monsters" etc.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

sure, but even that's a reaction inside the genre to the genre being steeped in it

look at The Culture, Banks was a straight up communist writing about somewhere he'd want to live but the stories are about liberal colonisation