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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.)
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i actually got hold of a review copy of this
(using the underhand scurvy weasel trick of asking for one)
that was two weeks ago and i still haven't opened it lol
better get to that, sigh
this review has a number of issues (he liked HPMOR) but the key points are clear: bad argument, bad book, don't bother
It's even worse than Methods? That should be surprising but isn't.
it's shorter!
Methods is increasingly looking like Ulysses for the Internet age. You may or may not get anything worthwhile from trying to read it, but the scope and scale are such that it's impressive it exists and also you will almost certainly not finish it, leaving the parts justifying it's considerable reputation somewhere in the 40,000 we words you didn't read.
At least with Ulysses, there's a brothel chapter.