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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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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!
I want to add William H. Tucker’s posthumous “The Bell Curve in Perspective”, which came out I think right at the end of last year. It’s a short, thorough, assessment both of the history of The Bell Curve book itself and what has happened since.
Even the first chapter is just mindblowingly terse in brutally unpacking how (a) it was written by racists, (b) for racist ends, (c) Murray lied and lied afterwards in pretending that ‘only a tiny part of the book was about race’ or whatever
The Bell Curve in Perspective is free online.
Seconding, Mismeasure of Man is fantastic.