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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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Roko: the Animatrix demonstrates why we must destroy the chip fabs (www.lesswrong.com)
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[–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We simply don't know how the world will look X (anything with a bigger scale)

Yes. So? This has, will, always be the case. Uncertainty is the only certainty.

When these assholes say things, the implication is always that the future world looks like everything you care about being fucked, you existing in an imprisoned state of stasis, so you better give us control here and now.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do love this compulsion of rationalists to use Big Numbers as if they were sufficient arguments.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 9 months ago

but what if the number was really really big 🥺

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

Nobody knows and it's impossible for anyone to know so let's all just assume I'm right.

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago

my mind always goes back to the sci-fi classics