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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.)

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[–] bcdavid@hachyderm.io 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Architeuthis @tante I often hear it said that the TREACLE crowd is a section of early 2000s Internet atheists that went on to invent their own god, but I don't think it gets pointed out enough how much stupider their belief system is compared to the religions they constantly mock.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

The movement also predates the 2000 internet atheists a bit, Yud has iirc spoken about posting in 90's newsgroups about this stuff. (of course there also was a 90s atheist movement).

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[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

It's kind of fascinating how rotten the "New Atheist" movement turned out to be. Whether it's Richard Dawkins revealing his inner racist-misogynist, Michael Shermer being rapey AF, or James Lindsay turning into a Christofascist, the movement seems to have spawned and/or revealed a lot of really problematic people. I guess it's no surprise that the rationalist scene had such a membership overlap.

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