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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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Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.) (www.reddit.com)
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TL;DR:

I rant a bunch about how the silly eschatology of Yudkowsky and his cult have been hijacked by monopolistic corporate goons to push generative AI. Figured y'all might be interested.

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[โ€“] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You might notice that I really, really don't like Yudkowsky and the Rationalists. Honestly, the biggest reason? It's because they almost lured me into their nonsense. The only reason I figured out how awful they were and avoided being sucked in? It's because I read one of Yudkowsky's posts claiming his rational methods were superior to the scientific method, which set off a lot of alarm bells in my head, and sent me down a serious research rabbit hole. I do not take kindly to people making a sucker out of me.

Yeah I felt a certain allure back when I was tragically afflicted with teenager brain and thought the idea of thinking logically was neato. At the time Mr. Yudkowsky was on the Overcoming Bias blog.

Eventually I noticed they were horribly racist, sexist, unscientific, and not-as-logically-thinking-as-advertised because of their weird evo-psych and gender beliefs and drifted away to the feminism blog-o-sphere instead (where I caused enough minor drama for a TERF to angrily blog about me haha, the internet was so much fun back then).

[โ€“] JohnBierce@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Hah I wish I could say I was still a teenager when I almost got sucked in, but...

And yeah, the internet was so much more fun back in the day.