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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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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It seems that nauru is mostly a high plateau: topographical map here If the sea rises by more than 20m it's certainly a scenario where 1M wouldn't do you much good either way.

EDIT: If I were a Nauru citizen I still wouldn't sell, certainly not for such a low-ball offer ^^.

EDIT2: Corrected 10K to 1M, not as awake as I thought. Maybe not such a low-ball offer, but it would still be a matter of principle to refuse such an offer, more on ethical/dignity grounds than financial ones, certainly I wouldn't expect such a decision to be unanimous.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@zogwarg @cstross

Apparently the elevated interior of the island was rendered effectively uninhabitable by phosphate mining.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad, who has been to Nauru, pointed out that Nauru has basically no arable land. So the survivalists would either have to somehow have food imported from the other .5% of humanity that survived climate change, or eat seagull. It's very reminiscent of the Masque of the Red Death. I guess since they're EA heads they'll even be taking lots of recreational drugs and having sex parties.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't there stories about techlords (like Thiel) grabbing real estate in NZ? That's a lot better: natural resources, common-law legal system, English language. Of course you can't buy the entirety of NZ and declare yourself king, so it's probably not EA enough.

[–] m@blat.at 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@gerikson They have a king already anyway. For the time being, at least.

[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

So I've been told.