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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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TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Tracingwoodgrains is a reference to one of the sillier plot points in Card's Ender series, right? Not very flattering imo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

oh god is it from that messed up OCD plot line in one of the bad ones -- Xenocide? -- which I'd forgotten about until just now? I guess if someone has an OCD diagnosis you could imagine taking that as a reclamation...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm assuming he does have OCD, but given the context I don't know if I'm very confident about how much ironic distance there is to the name..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

yup.