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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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In which Scott Aaronson creates the most offensive trolley problem imaginable (scottaaronson.blog)

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It might as well be my own hand on the madman’s lever—and yet, while I grieve for all innocents, my soul is at peace, insofar as it’s ever been at peace about anything.

Psychopath.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See so the wiki should link, or even cache/include the oages from wikipedia that are better easy to do in mediawiki.

Make me an admin Scott, I know mediawiki, and I can be trusted. Honest.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

MediaWiki does not seem like the right tool for this job, if one were starting from scratch. It's... a lot of infrastructure for a small number of pages that will be changed very sporadically by a small number of people.

Hey, it looks like our very own corbin started the "complexity class" page at the nLab! Maybe we should flesh that out. (I started their page for the number 24 but am not very active at all.)

[–] corbin@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Sometimes the required writing style for nLab is a little restrictive. It's not a good place to dump a bunch of info. Kind of opposite that, I also beefed up the esolangs list of complexity classes a while ago; it's limited in scope and audience too, but folks usually find that style more accessible.

I'm so jealous that you started the page for 24! I've only worked on niche topics and meanwhile you've got the most important numerology in all of combinatorics. I still need to rewrite that Jim Carrey movie 23 to be about 24; it's on my list.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah sadly my knowledge of recent research on complexity classes is almost non-existent and before that I was not the greatest at it in university.