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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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Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. (awful.systems)
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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The French urologist by day eugenicist transhumanist crank by night Laurent Alexandre had an interesting perspective on the subject fifteen years ago. We should do eugenics and edit our brains to be better so as to counter the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. The robots will replace us if we don't do rigorous embryo selection.

Incidentally he also warns that a modern day Stalin in possession of nanomachines and gene editing technologies would create what he terms "neuro-gulags".

I don't remember seeing Lesswrongers play with these sorts of ideas, which is a little surprising. But they're reluctant to diminish the AI's omnipotence I imagine.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don’t remember seeing Lesswrongers play with these sorts of ideas

the all-defector in rajaniemi's books probably sits pretty close?

(I still can't tell if rajaniemi's actually really into all this shit, or just found it all to be a highly convenient backstory for some entertainingly detailed scifi)