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The Cult of AI (including some fan favourites)
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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.]
(jazzy finger-snaps of approval)
Let's see if I still remember how ol' Basilisk works:
AI researchers could feel compelled to create an AI that thinks mean thoughts about anyone who isn't nice to it. Because they're not sure if they're in reality or in one of the AIs mean thoughts (edit: or if the AI may someday think mean thoughts about them even if they aren't). Then throw in 100k words of fluff with fake statistics and fancy words like "acasual" to befuddle weird nerds into buying the argument.
Oh yeah that is too stupid to explain. It's the ontological argument for Christian God, but on crack.