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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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[–] scruiser@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“I’m sort of a complex chaotic systems guy, so I have a low estimate that I actually know what the nonlinear dynamic in the memosphere really was,” he said. (Translation: It’s complicated.)

Why do these people have the urge to talk like this? Does it make themselves feel smarter? Do they think it makes them look smart to other people? Are they so caught up in their field they can't code switch to normal person talk?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 19 hours ago

They have a hard time admitting they don't understand something, so it must be very very complicated when they don't. Pairs with not being a good communicator, which is what this guy was lamenting about.