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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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Scientific racism doesn't exist.
Racism is unscientific, it is purely emotional and not based on reality or statistics if you dig deep enough.
You can call it scientific-sounding racism though.
I call it: "scientific" racism. To me that gets the point across the best.
The point is that you are still calling it out as racism, a term racists very much don't like. Meaning, the "racism" is the important part in "scientific racism", because it unequivocally tells us that the science in question is shit.
The actual euphemism for sciency racism is human biodiversity studies.
I mean yes you are right but “scientific racism” and “race science” etc. are real phrases that are useful to describe and discuss particular racist ideas.
Pseudo-scientific racim.
Honestly that just seems to imply the concept of legitimate scientific racism even more.
Numberwang racism