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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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My deep dive into yudkowsky's "diamondoid bacteria" claims and drexler-style nanotech in general (titotal.substack.com)
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https://titotal.substack.com/p/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-deadly

I wrote this article a month or two ago, thought people here might be interested. Drexler-style nanotech research appears to be effectively dead at the moment.

Oh, and Yudkowsky responded to the article with characteristic obliviousness:

I broadly endorse this reply and have mostly shifted to trying to talk about "covalently bonded" bacteria, since using the term "diamondoid" (tightly covalently bonded CHON) causes people to panic about the lack of currently known mechanosynthesis pathways for tetrahedral carbon lattices.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonus: I love the person in the comments who is effectively shouting, "A MILLION SUPERINTELLIGENCES! NANOTECH POSSIBLE! DEBATE ME! I'M VERY SMART!!!" into the void at this point.

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Light LEAKS through the CRACKS. My mind is BRIGHTER than it EVER was. THE HIGHER I RISE THE MORE I SEE.

then again look at the way these people actually talk:

Yeah we definitely disagree about that crux. You'll see. Happy to talk about it more sometime if you like.

the Cultist Simulator quote is significantly more sane than “nah I disagree, a million AI superintelligences can just poof their way into existence regardless of magical nanotech, infrastructure, the speed of light, or any other physical limitations on the amount of compute we can practically fit into one space”

e: fucking “you’ll see”, these people are convinced the rapture is almost here

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

There should be a cultist simulator mod where the principles are the TREACLES components. Expeditions are deep dives where you fend off scientific consensus to find contrarian blog posts as relics. Followers can take damage from information hazards and must be healed by adderall or nootropics.

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

…fuck, I like this so much I might look up what it takes to mod cultist simulator later today

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

One of the languages you can learn is “incorrect japanese”