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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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Effective Altruists: look, we tried to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so interesting! (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
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[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

First: our sessions and guests were mostly not controversial — despite what you may have heard

Man, you invite one Nazi to speak at your conference and suddenly you're "the guys who invited a Nazi to speak at their conference." How is that fair? :-(

[–] aio@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want to come and help "balance out" someone who thinks that using they/them pronouns is worse than committing genocide.

Does anyone really think this, or are you just using hyperbole?

Not hyperbole. Hanania, Manifest promoted speaker, wrote "Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?" in May 2022.

I just can't, it's like that one scene from Austin Powers.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's the "what did you like least" survey entries the organizers say they classified as "edgy people":

column 1 Worst thing categories, column 2, What did you enjoy least about Manifest? row 1, col 1, edgy people, col 2, All the racism stuff, row 2 col 1, gender ratio/demographics, edgy people, col 2, way too much eugenics, gender ratio sufficiently uneven that it was a bit uncomfortable, row 3 col 1, people, gender ratio/demographics, edgy people, col 2, Also meeting people.... as a woman I have never felt as ignored and disrespected as I have in some instances the...

"all the racism stuff" = "edgy people". Yup.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our sessions and guests spanned a wide range of topics: prediction markets and forecasting, of course; but also finance, technology, philosophy, AI, video games, politics, journalism and more.

haha

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Our sessions and guests spanned a wide range of topics: grifting and grifting, of course; but also grifting, grifting, racism, grifting, racism, racism, racism and more.