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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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what the heck EA forum doesn't have a block feature? That's just... ew.
Also how long have all these people been obsessed with "woke" and "the left"? Because it's been really obvious and over the top lately.
You don't need a block feature if you're as insufferable as the average EA /j
Because they’re the wealthy or at least believe in wealth’s ability to do good. A basic interpretation of EA would say that you should start a company, and maximize profit even at the expense of worker compensation so you have more to give to charity
They approximate by forming private companies that they then talk about as if they're 501(c)3 charities and pay accordingly, or less - see our friends such as Kat Woods at Nonlinear here for a previous worked example.
Gamergate. Nuff said.
nah. under whatever name, the reactionary racists have been in the rationalist subculture since the '90s at latest
If we trace one ancestry path back to science-fiction fandom, well, there's John W. Campbell.
yeah, I have posited previously that the California Ideology traces in a straight line through science fiction to Rudyard Kipling.
"And a waifu is only a waifu, but a good cigar is a smoke."
In the first Foundation story, there's a weird mention of applying symbolic logic to human language that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. Campbell insisted upon it because
Clear being a fortuitous choice of wording on Asimov's part there, given, well.
TESCREAL and Scientology don't just share methodology; they both descend directly from "Golden Age" science fiction. In this essay I will
Ah, I do believe I now see a bit of an extra in the reason for the makeup of the story in that one writer/writing episode of DS9
you're so much more graciously subtle than I'm feeling tonight, but then I did clock my brain out after this fucker of a week
wut