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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.)

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EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault (x.com)

submitted 6 months ago by shinigami3@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One objection is that “woke ideology hurts EA cause areas”.

There are many counters to that.

First off, are they actually “woke”? There is a ton of disagreement.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago

"I just think it's really unfair for my friends and donors to have to feel this uncomfortable because ..."

aaaah, the language of the complicit and the vile. how I loathe thee.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

now it got me wondering: how closely is chief shithead pete thiel involved in EA? that probably wouldn't be much, unless indirectly via his fellowship and such?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

not very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved