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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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I hate this phrase but this is “saying the quiet part out loud” in action.
I couldn't finish reading this, when I read this out loud: "I don’t want to be cuckolded by someone else’s pretty network-TV values." all the nearby dogs started barking.
E: seems a bit like a younger person who is now going through some trauma about how much influence they really have vs how much they imagined they had when they were 12 and now they are at risk of replacing that with nihilism tinted with far right dog-whistles (and as they keep searching for new values, and the nihilism turns out to also provide none they will just turn far right (if they aren't there already looking at the 'globohomo' blog (the blog is also fucking weird, look at the other things posted, it is just a massive list of blog posts all at the same day/days and a quick check (about 5 articles) shows the globohomo post is the only one with any upvotes) post they linked at). I think one of the more annoying problems of LW is that you simply cannot talk about this, you cannot go '"globohomo", "cuck" wtf you really need to read some other things than trash, you are poisoning your own brain'.
This really resonates. Unfortunately I think that's right. Having this epiphany, this existential correction, about ones self, has either the possibility to create true life long wisdom or, irrecoverable life long self loathing, and from my experience it comes down to the quality of this person's relationships to lean on when confronting the internal fear of mortality.
So it's sad to see but this is another example of the latter and not the former.