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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: [Request]: Use "Epilogenics" instead of "Eugenics" in most circumstances - people just don't like the word itself yes that must be it. Coined by Aella. (www.lesswrong.com)

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ah we are at the ~~race science~~, no ~~HBD~~, no ~~scientific racism~~, euh racialism period of Eugenics.

(I could have also done this with AI).

"it is non-coercive" Guess they are not even watching Gattaca anymore.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aella always my go-to on consent issues

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

the A stands for absolutely and the e stands for ethical

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, she's like a bloody walking negation sign for any statement

[–] Collectivist@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are now starting to get favorably cited on the EA Forum too:

Lynn and Vanhanen collected IQ scores from various studies and made corrections, such as adjusting for the FLynn Effect, , to produce their national estimates.

When a commenter cites a wikipedia page which shows that Lynn is 1) a self-described scientific racist who systematically picked datasets which gave black people lower IQ, and 2) It's called the Flynn effect, not the FLynn effect, since Lynn didn't discover it, he responds

A side point, but Wikipedia is politically biased. I intentionally capitalized the L to give credit as Richard Lynn's discovery preceeded Flynn's first publication. Although, his discovery was preceeded by Runquist.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Endless screaming.