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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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"Human Biodiversity" on LessWrong (reflectivealtruism.com)
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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 2 points 20 hours ago

Part 6 quotes a Motte'r as saying,

This distrust of experts dates back at least to Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong. Eliezer pointed out, rather convincingly, that mainstream philosophy is a total mess, and that taking a philosophy course is not a great way to improve your thinking. Most likely you’ll waste your time learning about Pythagoras or something.

The thudding lack of intellectual curiosity is giving me a headache. Why study Pythagoras? Hmm, how about learning how to talk about a semi-legendary person of whom we have no direct written evidence, only stories written centuries after the fact?

[–] cornflake@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

Oh this blog is dangerous, I might be hear for days

[–] picklefactory@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

I vividly recall wandering into an Open Thread on SSC so many years ago now and seeing those getting the most attention were Bazaar Man and Stephen, the Sailor. What else are you supposed to think except "oh, it's that kind of place"? Kind of this person write a descriptive series of article instead of employing my reaction of simply shuddering in disgust and leaving.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damn, had missed somebody did an effort ~~post~~ series on all these problems. What I have read so far is pretty good.

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The series is on the sympathetic and charitable side in terms of tone and analysis, but it still gets to most of the major problems, so its probably a good resource for referring to people that want a "serious", "non-sarcastic" dive into the issues with LW and EA.

Edit: Reading this post in particular, it does a good job of not cutting the LWs slack or granting them too much charity. And it has really broken down the factual details in a clear way with illustrative direct quotes from LW.