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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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WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

bonus from thread:

I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dang that slanderous Guardian describing Manifund as a prediction market when it's a market where people make predictions. Totally misleading!

Since Ivan owns 50% of the project's certs, his stake has tripled in value from $3,000 to $9,000; he sells them for $9,000 to The Good Foundation, netting a $6,000 profit. (Important note: for legal reasons, profits on Manifund impact certificates can currently only be used to donate to charity and can't be cashed out in the normal way.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is the header image on that page an intentional joke at the expense of GenAI, or did someone seriously make that and add it to the page? Do they autogenerate their pics?

a generated image of an open newspaper that says the guardian in one page and contovicsy on the other, in front of some monstrous microscope and a distorted chessboard and a chess piece in an orb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's still hard to beat the dck pck

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i think they honestly think this shit is cool

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hard to know if "Contovicsy" is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The more I look, the more I'm sure it's just bad GenAI art. I mean, look at the random Big Ben with newspaper art extending into the ether behind it, the off-center knight-in-orb, the decomposed microscope thing, the physically impossible structural shadow on the disproportionate globe that simultaneously shows from Panama east to Borneo but somehow lacks India...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

is it considered acceptable journalistic ethics at Vox for a journalist who reports on EAs and prediction markets to make prediction market bets on how a journalistic outlet will follow-up a story on prediction markets and EAs? My eyebrows have just levitated so high they've collided with a starlink swarm.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

But betting? There’s being an insider and then there’s profiting, and aren’t most journalists prohibited from trading or betting on their covered areas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

but money is The Unit Of Caring

yes, she literally nicknamed herself "money"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Aren't prediction markets an attempt to turn insider trading into a productive part of society (or whatever the libertarians who love prediction markets conceptualize as society.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Isn't it like not real money? Or have they changed that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The good news is that eugenics chuds are really easy to simulate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so sorry that you have to soil your diodes with these shitheads' tamagotchis

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With just a little bit of creative bin-packing they can share a core with the processes that simulate the smell of sewage and leafblower noise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Good Place is a perfect model for this. For the price of a single simulated clam chowder fountain, you can torture hundreds of souls in parallel!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being such losers that you get owned by the fucking Guardian, and as your brilliant followup, you start screaming "I'M NOT OWNED"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Has anyone checked for kernels of corn growing behind their ears?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

still lost :D although strangely this evoked some Q3A mental imagery for me