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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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[–] aninjury2all@awful.systems 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Pedophile to transphobe pipeline...

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Just once I'd like a popular N.American public intellectual to not be a grifter.

For those who don't know, Pinker is a 'techno-optimist' which means that he believes that iphones and AI are going to solve all the problems of neoliberalism.

If you've ever heard the argument "but poverty worldwide is down and we're living in an unprecedented era of peace", it's this fucking guy.

The whole "TED" circuit is just Shark-Tank for academics. Only instead of good business ideas, they're competing to reassure rich liberals that they're good people and the status quo is moral and right.

[–] acausal_masochist@awful.systems 2 points 43 minutes ago

Mocking Peven Stinker is one of the main reasons this community exists.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Douglas Adams once identified these guys as a class of prostitute, then cleverly wrote it in a funny book so that no one would get mad at him.

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Fork found in kitchen

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Shocker", yeah right. Least surprising appearance ever.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Perhaps more of a stinker than a shocker.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago

How could anyone Nazi it coming?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

Emil Kirkegaard

Drink!

New rule: you're not allowed to tell people to shut up and look at the numbers unless you're actually good at math.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Didn’t know of his existence, but now I know to avoid.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

i remember him a while ago, pseudoscience about race/psychology. hes like the frank greene(string theory nonsense) of psychology

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

and so it begins