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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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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sigh added to the list. (I already enjoyed his corp wars stories, the addition of reactionaries including the minority reactionary felt so topical)

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

The Fall Revolutions books are quite old. I didn't really get into the Corp War trilogy.

Newton's Wake is also a nice commentary on a hard takeoff singularity where the dominant faction is a Glaswegian crime gang.

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

Now there is a concept, the Glaswegian crime gang singularity.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 1 year ago

@Soyweiser @gerikson

Are ice cream vans involved?