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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you really think "cult" is a useful category/descriptor here?

My view: things identified as "cults" have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they're associated with the label "cult" or not.

Yes, this is real

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not only is this real, I think this is a paraphrase of a thing Yud wrote. Which makes it even cultier. (A reason why I called the Rationalismsphere a cult incubator, as their teachings make you more susceptible to getting into cults).

Edit: For example on his writing on cults, and more 'Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult'. (Look Cade Metz is referenced, before they turned on him)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody:

EA: Scientology has some good traits, we should copy them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“Look, all I’m saying is that Scientology managed to scale massively, both in members and funding! There’s obviously something there that we can learn from!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fuck me...I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Effective Altruism, Dude. At least it's an ethos!