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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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Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Side note, I know Taleb is widely appreciated, but man this is some badly written stuff. Is all his stuff like this? I realize blog post != book, but c'mon, some pride in craftmanship is in order.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he needs an editor. But the relentless dunking on IQiots is worth the verbiage imo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, way too much of it is. Taleb is extremely smart, but nobody is as smart as Taleb thinks he is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

High-end stats is kind of Taleb’s thing, so he gets to be as insufferable as he likes dunking on IQiots imo.