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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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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So which big name TREACLES are gonna be on it?

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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None, unless dead old Marvin Minsky had his head frozen and that counts somehow.

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago

he fucking would

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

Not to discount the possibility, but it might be none/few. I think a lot of them are too new-money / too-fringe-when-epstein-was-applicable to have been a part of that orbit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Epstein did donate some money to SIAI, not sure if it was before or after his first conviction

EDIT: Rob Bensinger says it was seed funding for OpenCog that SIAI was collecting, and that they turned him down in 2016 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3JjKWWrKWJ8nysD9r/question-about-a-past-donor-to-miri?commentId=i49RZQgoQZYrXdpis