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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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loving the EA forum on how the problem with spending the charity money on a castle was the public relations (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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[โ€“] maol@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason there aren't any aristocrats living in the shagging things anymore - you need a big staff and a lot of resources to run them! They only made economic sense when there were throngs of peasants to work in them for cheap or free, and people had very different expectations when it came to energy, heating and lighting.

It's hard to see what OpenAI could have gotten out of this purchase, except the chance to fulfil their Bond villain fantasies.