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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.

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[–] lurker@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bostrom’s conclusion is that we should colonize the universe as soon as possible

because colonialism has never caused any damage to any kind of ethnic group or environment whatsoever and has never resulted in any kind of horrific crime such as genocide and slavery. no sirree!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 23 hours ago

All of that is justified because of the almost infinite post humans living in the simulation in the future after all the colonization is done.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three depicts a generation ship that's

spoilerchock full of weaponry to basically sterilize any promising planet to ensure the cargo it carries is able to survive

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 23 hours ago

Time to add another book to the list.