Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it's not a CASTLE it's a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,

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[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 12 points 7 months ago

the émile torres hit piece linked in there is pretty fucking awful (how could anyone display such incivility towards honest intellectuals such as Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose! gasp!) and destroys any semblance of good faith this post might have been trying to build

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Torres has written about that hit piece! It's the only article on that substack, "Mark Fuentes" doesn't appear to exist, the material was partially published under another name first, the material ultimately originated in the EA forums, and the article is a favourite of EA attempted astroturfers.

anyway, that's the quality of article that titotal just happens to reach for first

he's just using it as an example of a supposedly well-written and convincing article about Torres you understand, and just happened to pick an odious lump of slander that originated in that very forum

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago

Pointing out the existential risk of evil toaster ovens: on the up and up.

Pointing out the existential risk of politically connected doomsday cultists who pontificate about nuking any country with too many sweet gaming PCs: Oh no too mean :(

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