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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
They also seem to broadly agree with the 'hey, humans are pretty shit at thinking too, you know' line of LLM apologetics.
But judging from the rest of the review I can see how you kind of have to be at least somewhat rationalist-adjacent to have a chance of actually reading the thing to the end.
Kind of like saying that humans are car-driving machines because we drive cars.