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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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Move over TESCREAL, R9PRESENTATIONALism is here. (archive.is)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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[–] scruiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think the problem is that the author doesn’t want to demonize any of those actual ideologies that oppose TESCREALism either explicitly or incidentally because they’re more popular and powerful and because rather than being foundationally opposed to “Progress” as he defines it they have their own specific principles that are harder to dismiss.

This is a good point. I'll go even further and say a lot of the component ideologies of anti-TESCREALISM are stuff that this author might (at least nominally claim to) be in favor of so they can't name the specific ideologies.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. He spends a fair chunk of ink that I can't be bothered finding the quote on trying to reassure readers that despite throwing out literal Frankfurt School Cultural Marxism dog whistles he's definitely not anti progressive, and in fact the robot apocalypse cultists are the real progressives. It smacks of Jordan Peterson and Moldbug, wrapped in a less competent and readable version of Scott's beigeness.