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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 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

don’t worry, folk like Yudkowsky have already taken care of substituting one god with another under rationalism’s name in an attempt to grift atheists who miss the comfort of an afterlife to look forward to

you can thank him by donating a tithe of all your money to effective altruism or whichever “AI alignment” org will save you from the Basilisk these days

[–] davidemmerson@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@self I had no idea who that was until I looked him up. He talks about something called “Rationality” (which seems to be anything but). I’m talking about Rationalism, which is a different thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism?wprov=sfti1

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

further reading as you fall down the Yudkowsky rabbit hole I guess (and the complementary RationalWiki article, written by folks who probably deserve the term rationalist to a greater degree than any of LessWrong or Yudkowsky’s output)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how can you trust rationalwiki it's the sorta organisation that uses a brain as a logo

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the brain, mostly notable for being the only organ capable of generating lies. how curious that anyone would recommend a website that identifies with the liemaker organ

e: please read this post in the most ben shapiro voice your liemaker can muster

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

i expect it was a brain that did that