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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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Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism" (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

A lot of “I can control my emotions and choose how I act, you should try that” - yeah stop. We’re human. Emotions are normal.

Ye, that's the point? The point is not to suppress emotions but to recognise them as they're happening to you. It's not even that there's objective value assigned to the emotions, it's simply so that you yourself can perform introspection of the kind "I did that action because I was furious. Now is that good or bad?". But it's still entirely okay to make a conscious decision of the form:

I'm gonna punch that motherfucker
Okay, stop, I am feeling fury right now, I shouldn't allow just the emotion to guide me. Let's think.
Okay, I thought this through, I'm gonna punch that motherfucker with purpose.