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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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Super casual conversation about Eugenics (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Evinceo@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, super casual. Disturbingly so.

"2 of the triplets can't read at grade level; the plus 5 IQ option didn't deliver enough utils in my Monte Carlo simulation."

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just going to pretend that this thread was instead about IV breeding Pokemon. I don't need to see a casual expression of some of humanity's worst ideas on Reddit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago

Do not give SSC a water stone.

[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How many rounds of IVF is the poor pregnant partner, inevitably a cis woman, meant to do? Isn't IVF infamously fucking gruelling, requiring injections and ending in miscarriages? Is her husband going to make her feel like shit for refusing to make being pregnant her full time job? A massive amount of reproductive labour is just being taken for granted here.

And if these EAers refuse, the reproductive labour just gets passed on to other women. Grimes didn't want to have another kid with Elon (aren't they nonbinary? I'm sure it might have caused them dysphoria) so Elon persuaded one of his fucking employees into doing IVF and being their surrogate because it's important for smart people to have kids. (Source)

Reproductive rights - never more important!

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should really be doing screen shots or an archive link so we're not driving traffic to reddit.

That said, fucking wot?

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably need to get that archive refreshed, there’s fresh terrible replies

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that there are! updated

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Thanks."

Edit JFC I went back and read the new comments. Pro-tip: don't.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah sorry I should probably have included a (stronger) warning

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago

Perfect, now it will be safe from getting scrubbed next time SVSS realizes he's let the mask slip.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"How dare you call us eugenicists!"

Is that top reply from Scott? And is he really saying that what is holding eugenics back for now is ethical concerns?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I certainly hope ethical concerns are holding back eugenics. Possibly even among the main things doing so.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I think when we say 'held back by ethical concerns' and he says 'held back by ethical concerns' it means different things.