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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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rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys. (www.lesswrong.com)
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the EAs have access to so much money that other orgs have to dance to their tune, and are discovering the professionals think the EAs are fucking nutters

the comments are darling also

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

Yeah it is nuts, also very funny that in the book im reading which mocks the rationalists, the rationalist goal is to own Jupiter or something.

[–] BioMan@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no, to BE jupiter

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

Technically that is unclear this is what he says:

‘No doubt it is,’ Caplan conceded, ‘but I don’t want the superintelligence to come into existence before I’m uploaded. It’s very important to me that I’m the first transcendent being in this stellar system. I can’t risk having to compete with another resource-hungry entity; I have personal plans that require at least one Jovian mass of computronium.’

Before

spoilerDying of a side effect of his life extension experiments a few decades later. ( Or more freezing himself). One of the protagonists quips, at least now Jupiter is safe.