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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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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know journos are looking again, finally, but like Peoples Temple was taken down that way.

(also I really recommend reading Raven or the PBS documentary on Jonestown).

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In secondary school we were doing a unit on religion and one day when the teacher was out we watched a documentary about Jonestown, pretty horrible. Ended with the Jonestown tapes. It became clear at the end that most of the other girls in my class had never heard of Jonestown and were really shocked by how it all ended. I don't know if I can go back and look at it all again. Interesting though if only for their relationship to SF politics.

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that part was very interesting.