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Vaccinations in Book Form?
(awful.systems)
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.]
The Mismeasure Of Man is the obvious threat, given Yudkowsky felt it necessary to post why good rationalists should not read Gould.
So what other books has the subculture declared unsuitable?
I'm working through this one now, and it's great. Gould was such a great writer, it's no wonder Big Yud sees his work as a threat.
I did a dive on Yudkowsky's terrible writeup of it on I Don't Speak German, I should really write it up as a sneer
(I will never get around to this)
Was that in this episode?
A related take from PZ Myers:
that's great!
now I know what I’m listening to during work
yep!