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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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"Our critics are mocking us for spending all the mosquito-net money on a castle!"
"It's not a castle, it's a stately home, a manor house."
"That still sounds too posh!"
"OK how about 'detached house'? Just don't mention it has 27 bedrooms..."
from the estate agents' site:
it's not a castle! it's just got certain castle-like characteristics
from that language I'm reminded of the artist who went undercover as a billionaire, along with another article I read somewhere but lost the link to
so many of these places selling vibes and ideas. they're not residences, they're showpieces. they're "it's got an indoor cinema and 5 private bars and ...." flexing
fucking inane