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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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[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The anti-TESCREAL conspiracy argues that even relatively cautious people like Bostrom talking about the risks of superintelligence is reactionary since they distract us from algorithmic bias and the electricity use of server farms. While we agree that techno-libertarians tend to be more interested in millennialist and apocalyptic predictions than responding to the problems being created by artificial intelligence today, we also believe that it is legitimate and important to discuss potential catastrophic risks and their mitigation. The anti-TESCREALists dismiss all discussion of AGI, ranging from “believers” to “doomers.”

none of this looks worthwhile to me

[–] michaelhoney@assemblag.es -5 points 1 year ago

@self the tldr is that lumping everything TESCREAL together into "assholes are into this, therefore it is bad" means that a lot of worthwhile and important ideas, many of which were developed by left thinkers, get lost.

(that said, "anti-TESCREAL conspiracy" is I think itself an unfortunate compression)