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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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rationalist reaches the libertarian conclusion about child marriage (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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saw this pointed out here and felt it deserved it's own post

let me mention that this is exactly the sort of argument I've seen pedophilia enthusiasts break out many times:

hmm, we thoughtful inquirers should look at this incredibly tenous evidence I've curated. it raises questions about whether we should be superrrrr chill about sex with children. questions with answers that, I'm sold on!

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone should do a rewrite of "A Modest Proposal" in the form of one of these EA posts. It'd probably do pretty well.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I did 80 hours of study on this, and turns out that the children had only negative QALYs (from now on NQALYs), and the reduction of poor parents surplus children actually increased the total QALYs (and that is not even counting the benefits you get from using the children), therefore in this essay I will...

It is funny, some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don't realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

they would wholeheartedly embrace it in propoprtion to how awful the conclusion was

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ethical use for gpt 4?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given that the energy cost would probably kill off a significant portion of bumblebees or something, it’d have to do a lot of damage to TESCREAL to be worth it, just on utilitarian grounds alone. Given that these people seem to lack self awareness I don’t think satire would have any appreciable effect on them.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

counterpoint: my GALY (giggle adjusted life year) would skyrocket