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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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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
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The article doesn't mention SSC directly, but I think it's pretty obvious where this guy is getting his ideas

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

“Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.”

Tells you all you need to know about this “genius”. 🙄

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ahem technically he was betting on the dollar hyperinflating. He still lost though.

Receipts here: https://gerikson.com/btcticker/index.html#balajis

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

The current difference between that target and the price now is USD -936,852.77. (the number in red)

lol.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

Worker: why don't we get a larger share of the profits?

Owner: Because I'm taking most of the risk!

Also Owner: