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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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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Albert Einstein, himself, still lived and still made approximately the same discoveries, but his work no longer seems exceptional

It's hard to grasp how grotesquely stupid a sentence this is.

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

I am saving this to read later, but having eugenics and IQ in the very first sentence makes it look especially promising.

[–] titotal@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a physicist, this quote got me so mad I wrote an excessively detailed debunking a while back. It's staggeringly wrong.

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

that was shockingly polite

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

Kudos for the effortpost. My 5-second simpleton objection went something like

YEA BECAUSE WEBCAMS COME WITH DENSITY SENSORS INCLUDED RIGHT?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would generate the world's most beautiful camgirl, like a photoshop that's been photoshopped, and take over OnlyFans to raise money to wedgie rationalists, just don't look too closely at the fingers or teeth

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

this is fantastic! if you’ve ever got another one of these in you, feel free to tag it NSFW and post it here or on MoreWrite depending on what feels right. I live to see yud get destroyed in slow motion by real expertise

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

I've more than once been tempted to write Everything the Sequences Get Wrong about Quantum Mechanics, but the challenge is doing so in a way that doesn't just amount to teaching a whole course in quantum mechanics. The short-short version is that it's lazy, superficial takes on top of cult shit — Yud trying to convince the reader that the physics profession is broken and his way is superior.

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

I’d be happy to contribute what CS material I can to a multidisciplinary effort to prove that Yud’s lazy, superficial takes and cult shit are universal

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

I got as far as this blog post that I shared in the first days of new!SneerClub, but that was only a first stab.