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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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definitely time we started charging this person rent (www.lesswrong.com)
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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

you would almost think these people were doing philosophy while deliberately learning fuck all about it

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They skim read some utilitarianism, which is a limited school of thought (if it has any value at all), and jumped straight to "fuck yes! This is everything!"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

"at last! I can do some really telling thought experiments!"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

This is very undergraduate.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ties big yud and scott up in her basement, forces them to go through the critique of pure reason giving them a werther's every time they manage to genuinely engage with the ideas

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

scott's undergrad degree, he FUCKING MAJORED IN PHILOSOPHY