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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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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This comment tho:

I wonder if there are people who go to r/antiwork to obsess about the rigged system, and then go to r/StarCraft to appreciate pro players achieving glory in battle. Seems like one's morality might be highly domain specific.

"Haha I've caught you you hypocritical lefist! You enjoy (watching) people better (at StarCraft) than you after all!"

If Tate was a really really good kickboxer, he might still end up [morally] in the black.

What the heck am I reading?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

"Haha I've caught you you hypocritical lefist! You enjoy (watching) people better (at StarCraft) than you after all!"

It's almost as if there's a difference between winners and losers in a game we play for fun, and winners and losers in having a place to live

[–] fnix@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If I wanted to sound like a rationalist I'd tell Scott to check his fallacies, specifically category error. It's just such basic, wilful misconstrual on his part. Yeah, me liking my spaghetti quite salty doesn't mean I want to add salt to the dessert!

That's all besides the original point being that a rigged system is one where the best do not rise to the top, so even if our socioeconomic system and... Starcraft streamers (lol) were comparable categorically, which shouldn't have to be said they in any way aren't, the OG point is precisely that so much talent goes underutilized and glory unrealized due to a lack of broad cultivation and opportunity.

I don't get what makes people this way, with such small souls, just painstakingly intent on being miserly. Same thing with JK Rowling, she has all the money in the world to have the wildest pleasures or to leave everything and go off to some yurt for a spiritual search and instead she just purposefully acts in the most destructive and self-constricting manner. And this applies more generally to the awash-in-cash techbro and rationalist sets as well. You have the resources to do really interesting things, and yet you dedicate your time to making Juiceros.