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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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Why I'm leaving EA (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

From the comments:

Insect welfare (unlike woke identitarian proliferation) is not a priori wrong.

a community whose commendable openness to unbiased discussion of any idea, uh huh.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 4 months ago

At first I thought that, knowing libertarian-adjacent weirdos, that must be a typo.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

there aren't morally relevant differences between arthropods and other animals that justifies not equally considering their interests

That's funny, this is usually an argument against animal liberation.