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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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[–] aninjury2all@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Pedophile to transphobe pipeline...

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Just once I'd like a popular N.American public intellectual to not be a grifter.

For those who don't know, Pinker is a 'techno-optimist' which means that he believes that iphones and AI are going to solve all the problems of neoliberalism.

If you've ever heard the argument "but poverty worldwide is down and we're living in an unprecedented era of peace", it's this fucking guy.

The whole "TED" circuit is just Shark-Tank for academics. Only instead of good business ideas, they're competing to reassure rich liberals that they're good people and the status quo is moral and right.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Douglass Adams once identified these guys as a class of prostitute, then cleverly wrote it in a funny book so that no one would get mad at him.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago

Fork found in kitchen

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

"Shocker", yeah right. Least surprising appearance ever.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago

Perhaps more of a stinker than a shocker.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 22 hours ago

How could anyone Nazi it coming?

New rule: you're not allowed to tell people to shut up and look at the numbers unless you're actually good at math.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

Emil Kirkegaard

Drink!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Didn’t know of his existence, but now I know to avoid.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

i remember him a while ago, pseudoscience about race/psychology. hes like the frank greene(string theory nonsense) of psychology

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

and so it begins