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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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@ESYudkowsky: Remember when you were a kid and thought you might have psychic powers, so you dealt yourself face-down playing cards and tried to guess whether they were red or black, and recorded your accuracy rate over several batches of tries?

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And then remember how you had absolutely no idea to do stats at that age, so you stayed confused for a while longer?


Apologies for the usage of the japanese; but it is a very apt description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūnibyō,

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

No matter where he went he would start a cult, wouldn't he. His belief in his own greatness is too strong. If it was the 1920s he'd be running a spiritualist church or something, if it was the 1970s he'd be running an LSD church or something, but unfortunately it's the here and now and he's running a computer church.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's the L. Ron Hubbard of our times, a sci-fi author turned cult leader of the information age just as Hubbard was for the space age.

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

For some reason this sent me into a Kilgore Trout rabbit hole

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Innit. Any word on him having links to satanists? At least those 50s cults inspired some interesting art. Can the same be said for the wonkish cult of EA?

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

Long-ass blog posts are an art form, right?

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wilhelm Reich's orgone stuff resulted in one cracking song 30 years later (orgone accumulator). Maybe we'll have to wait that long.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 5 points 1 year ago

@maol @zogwarg

20s/30s: Some kind of orgone-type thing based on radio waves.

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

the computer church also occasionally does LSD

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Inner? EY is 100% outwardly chuuni.