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Émile Torres deep-sneers Nick Bostrom, the smartest man in Sweden
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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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 idea that industrial civilizations tend to destroy themselves was a commonplace during the Cold War. The Paperclip Maximizer is a lot like the magic broom in The Sorcerer's Apprentice and bureaucracies in the literature of the Austro-Hungarian empire.