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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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Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The apparent world-historical inversion, whereby the smart kids were also the rich and most powerful ones, was celebrated on iconic blogs and mailing lists such as Slate Star Codex and LessWrong (where users self-reported implausibly high IQ scores)

snerk

The IQ fetishists like to think they are living in a near future where they — the pure creative information workers imagined in the 1990s — have been elevated through their high intelligence and innate ability. They were not simply in the right place at the right time, bobbing along in a sea of liquidity in an era of zero interest rates. They were, like the staff at the Apple Store, geniuses.

also snerk

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

I’ll remember to do descriptions better next time!

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

The descriptions are already perfect

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

I feel like the article ends pretty suddenly, but maybe that's just because I can already imagine the next 30 pages of explaining TESCREAL bullshittery in my head

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The archive site just keeps throwing CAPTCHAs at me, so I can't read it. Please provide more information about what this is supposed to be, thanks and happy weekend

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Much appreciated. This isn't the first time that archive.ph has gone all GOTO 10 about clicking squares, but I don't know what the cause might be.

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

this happens if you’re using Cloudflare’s or Google’s DNS servers — the 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, and 1.1.1.1 ones. I forget the exact reason, but I do remember it’s basically an extremely petty network dispute

[–] JohnBierce@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Oooh, Quinn Slobodian! Just read his book Crack-Up Capitalism, good stuff.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter who it is, what faction, what job -

Basically everybody wants to be an autocrat now.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

🎶 everybody wants to rule the world 🎶