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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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is basically the premise of Charles Stross' Singularity Sky duology (never got more than 2 books because he realized he'd written himself into a corner). A weakly godlike AI dispatches human agents to throw wrenches into the works of people who might inadvertently violate causality within its lightcone. Of course your premise is time travel so the Eschaton's agents will arrive to drug you shortly.

[–] zzt@mas.to 4 points 1 year ago

@gerikson @swlabr I should pick those up, I need to read better sci-fi

(cc @cstross )