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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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I'm called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture. But every day I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will be - great

read the whole thread, her responses are even worse

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

It is sad both, our lack of good high quality LW-space sneers so we are falling back on sneering at Musk-space sneers, and the fact that for all her proto-white nationalist white exceptional racism she cannot even pick the common LW type ones, makes me wonder if she just has never heard of HBD yet, or didn't get it. Also makes me wonder if she is aware of the white nationalist trick people like Jared Taylor like to pull. Talks a lot about white culture, and only scarcely mention that he thinks white culture is a product of genetics. I also will not call her a nazi, as I think the tragic time of the nazis is over, and we are now in the farce era of the neo-nazis. ;). (Also I can be a bit pedantic and not sure this is enough yet, but sadly I often am proven wrong about these kinds of things).

Reminds me of how Musk has read/heard about some of the AGI LW stuff but just simply doesn't seem to get the complex parts of it, so he starts to say making AGI not kill humanity is easy just program it to have soft hands and not kill everybody.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

oh I've found many fine sneers right there on LW, but I think this one is good enough for sheer prominence.

i would not assume Grimes was aware of things or had what could meaningfully be called political opinions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I didn't mean it as a bad sneer, I meant it more like how incredibly bad Musk/Grimes etc are at the basics of all this. LW stuff needs you to read and dig, and they just go 'well im a socialist, I just don't believe workers should have any power'. (does explain why the lowest common denom cryptocoin scammers target musk fans).

[–] Blue_Morpho 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Could you expand your acronyms for my laziness? Google says agi is adjusted gross income.

[–] Feathercrown 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Artificial General Intelligence

[–] Blue_Morpho 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] elmtonic 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

HBD - Human BioDiversity, which I believe is a spin on scientific racism/evolutionary psychology.

LW - LessWrong, congregating site of the Rationalists

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

@dgerard A shallow flash card version of history, oddly excluding the Egyptians, and probably others, from "first ever empire", but racists are always strange about who they let in or kick out of their clubhouse.

[–] NIB 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I dont know if i would call Cyrus the Great, brown. He was persian(ie iranian). Are iranians brown? I guess this american centric focus on skin colour isnt a precise science BUT at least as far as the OG racists(nazis) were concerned, iranians were aryan. And not honorary "aryan" or "we need you, so i guess you are kind of an aryan". The nazis considered iranians legit aryan. And since she mentioned the japanese, they were considered "honorary aryans" by the nazis. Interesting examples from a non nazi.

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