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Jacob Coxon’s old archived tweets
(hilbertspaess.pages.dev)
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.]
See our twin at Reddit
EAs need to downplay climate change because otherwise it becomes really hard to explain why preventing it isn't the main focus of the organisation, since it should break their utilitarian calculus just as much as imaginary future robots with a hard on for paperclips do, with the additional problem that it would make their relationship with capital providers far more adversarial.
Plus they probably think that if they oppose industrial build out even indirectly it will piss off the basilisk.
I think it's because they think they're the elite of society who will ride out climate change and don't give a shit if they kill three billion people as long as those people are mostly in the global south because they're racist too.
I would argue that the root cause is that they are complete morons who wouldn’t recognize paperclip maximization if it put a gas turbine in their backyard.