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oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one
(www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
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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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HN gets the news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065862
Choice entry: Oxford dumped them because CS Lewis taught there and he would have hated them:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40066549
Also standard orange site/tech views on race and IQ...
Seeing more pushback than I would have expected on EAs, EACCs, and Bostroms than I would have expected.
fascists and racists do not welcome the spotlight (unless they're already in an extremely powerful position from which to, subjectively, enjoy the attention), and our very good friends have recently become quite illuminated
Yeah, HN is a huge "community" and even if the site design tries to flatten it to some sort of homogeneous soup[1] there's plenty of subcultures. The people who are interested in IQ, the danger of "woke" etc. tend to congregate on those submissions where these issues are discussed, but crucially, those submissions often don't stick around the front page that long. Neither do controversial discussions.
When these discussions do surface into mainstream HN, there will be pushback.
[1] I wrote a bit about this here: https://gerikson.com/m/2023/12/index.html#d03p01_sun