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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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LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4," (www.lesswrong.com)
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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

LLM's are great you doubters, look this guy even used it to get unshadowbanned on twitter.

Re the subject at hand 250+ upvotes oof. And once I again I feel the desire to write a 'gene editing to improve intelligence is immoral because of the higher depression risk that correlates with higher intelligence. But that would backfire very quickly (esp if we hook into other reasons why very smart people with no economic resources might even be extra depressed and poof we are back at eugenics and keeping the ~~Morlocks~~ poor away from intelligence improvements).

Vague association with eugenics make some academics shy away

This guys profile:

currently doing independent research on gene therapy with an emphasis on intelligence enhancement.

Gosh. (I honestly had not noticed these 2 quotes before I mentioned my trollpost + risk).

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that's just brave new world with extra steps

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

I have thought that for the distopia a lot of the right fears brave new world fits a lot better than 1984. But that is unrelated to this.