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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 Future of Humanity versus Company Bottom Line (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

s'alright, tho. It was always a cynical marketing strat to convert hyper-online nerd anxiety into investor hype. may want to check on Big Yud. Idk if anyone has heard from him since his Time Mag article coming onto a year old now, not that I tried.

Some of the risks the team worked on included "misuse, economic disruption, disinformation, bias and discrimination, addiction, and overreliance."

Conspicuous lack of grey goo or hyper-persuasive brainhacking. Still really good at being confidently wrong about basic shit!

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you just made me extremely aware of where i was, what i was doing, and how i was feeling, when i found out that the yud had an article in Time, and I am going to sue for the whiplash of realising how short a time ago that was

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

and yet still no international agreement to first strike rogue data centers smh

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

[what 2024 would look like if Big Yud had been allowed to first strike data centers in the mid-2010s meme - wizzy flying cars, big tubular buildings, and so on]

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

i've always been of opinion that the best defense against bitcoin mining facility is 120mm mortar