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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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The predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruism (mastodon.social)
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The predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruism

https://blog.oup.com/2022/12/the-predictably-grievous-harms-of-effective-altruism/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. following on from 1, it’s kind of funny that the EAs, who you could pattern match to a “high school nerd” stereotype, are intellectually beaten out by an analog of the “jock” stereotype of sports fans: fantasy league participants who understand the concept of “intangibles” that EAs apparently cannot grasp.

On a wider note, it feels the "geek/nerd" moniker's lost a whole lot of cultural cachet since its peak in the mid-'10s. It is a topic Sarah Z has touched on, but I could probably make a full goodpost about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh for sure. It’s probably why I feel so unmoored in today’s culture (jk)