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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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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 23 points 4 months ago (27 children)

Quillette, Claire Lehmann’s longform magazine focused on science and cultural critique and the home of, among other things, the best-researched article I know of on gender differences in chess

[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

my honest reacton:

Edit: Judit Polgár for ref if anyone wants to learn about one of the greatest of all times. Her dad claimed he was doing a nature/nurture experiment in order to prove that anyone could be great if they were trained to master a skill from a young age, so taught his 3 daughters chess. Judit achieved the rank of number 8 in the world OVERALL and beat multiple WC including Kasparov over her career.

idk its almost like if more girls were encouraged to play chess and felt welcome in the community these apparent skill differences might disappear

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Judit Polgár

Sadly, I know where this goes, they will just point out she is Jewish and point to that. (I think SSC even did that).

[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wishful thinking on my part to think their sexism/eugenics posting was based on ignorance instead of deliberately being massive piles of shit. Don't let them know Iceland has the highest number of GMs/pop or else we'll get a 10,000 page essay about how proximity to volcanoes gives + 20 IQ points.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 4 months ago

In that case, selling sulphur supplements for drinking water may turn out profitable

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

Careful, that might cause the humanbiodiversity posters to react and draw lines on maps! (Is that still a thing? I can't recall seeing much HBD posters anymore, likely my own bubble of course).

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