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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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Using Nineteen Eighty-Four references incorrectly is a right-wing trope.

[–] m@blat.at 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@gerikson Not just right wing. Orwell abuse is pretty much universal - I have a rule of thumb that anyone who describes something as “Orwellian” has either never read any Orwell or read 1984 once many years ago and remembers that it had cameras in it or something. It’s popular because it’s seen as an argument-stopping intervention - a more intellectual version of making Hitler comparisons. Reductio ad Orwellium?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

obviously the correct term is "Blairite"

[–] m@blat.at 4 points 10 months ago

@dgerard Eric the Arthur B.?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

puts on vr headset to play 'a plagues tale' this is so Orwellian.