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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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That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out (www.tracingwoodgrains.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

Gonna take a shot in the dark and say the fixation's from viewing chess more as an IQ showcase than as a game.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

probably but it isn't one I've come across (in this form), thus my surprise

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They’re all in for Chess as a sine qua non metric for intelligence if you spend enough time staring into the pit. Better to call it g than IQ tbh. Not only does it (chess) have the lick of rigour, it has the nerd cultural cachet and the ludicrous white masculinity complex.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

also, just ito "things to pick by which to point out dirtrag as a Shining Beacon", it's pretty fucking out there