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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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OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
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[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I suppose the goalpost shifting is my fault, the original comment was about Sutskever but I shifted talking about OpenAI in general, in part because I don't really know to what extent Sutskever is individually responsible for OpenAI's tech.

also mock anyone who says it’s OK for them to act this way because they have a gigantic IQ.

I think people are missing the irony in that comment.

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still not convinced Hanabie was being ironic, but if so missing the satire is a core tradition of Sneer Club that I am keeping alive for future generations.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

I think there's a non-ironic element too. Sutskever can be both genuinely smart and weird cultist; just because someone is smart in one domain doesn't mean they aren't immensely foolish in others.