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Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it (manifold.markets)
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WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

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I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago

But betting? There’s being an insider and then there’s profiting, and aren’t most journalists prohibited from trading or betting on their covered areas?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

but money is The Unit Of Caring

yes, she literally nicknamed herself "money"

[-] aio@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Isn't it like not real money? Or have they changed that

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Aren't prediction markets an attempt to turn insider trading into a productive part of society (or whatever the libertarians who love prediction markets conceptualize as society.)

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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.

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