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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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Lightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money back (awful.systems)

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Funding beg: (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser
The story: Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Among the leadership of the biggest AI capability companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Deepmind, xAI), at least 4/5 have clearly been heavily influenced by ideas from LessWrong.

I'm trying, but I can't not donate any harder!

The most popular LessWrong posts, SSC posts or books like HPMoR are usually people's first exposure to core rationality ideas and concerns about AI existential risk.

Unironically the better choice: https://archiveofourown.org/donate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yes but if I donate to Lightcone I can get a T-shirt for $1000! A special edition T-shirt! Whereas if I donated $1000 to Archive Of Our Own all I'd get is... a full sized cotton blanket, a mug, a tote bag and a mystery gift.