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[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I told myself I’d go in with an open mind, do my best to check my priors at the door, right next to the Harry Potter fan fiction.

This got a laugh out of me

One AI safety expert said, let’s just assume in the past that automation has replaced 30% of workplace tasks every generation, as if this were an unknowable thing, as if there were not data about historical automation that could be obtained with research, or as if that data could be so neatly quantified into such a catchy truism. I could not help but think that sociologists and labor historians would have had a coronary on the spot; fortunately, none seem to have been invited.

This got a laugh too. Perfectly sums up the Rationalists' tendency to ignore all scholarship that occurs outside of blog posts and fan-fic

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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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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