Bayes’ theorem, baby!

The wayback archive tells me: $450 👍

Jesus Christ, $550?? That’s a bit steep for a forum meet.

Spose that’s a good way to ensure all attendants are enlightened centrists.

Fucking Nick Land, man. When Nietzsche is too cogent and progressive for you.

be like me and read the critique of pure reason and pierre bourdieu’s distinction, you’ll be ready for anything forever

I appreciate the sentiment but the overwhelming majority of child sexual abuse is done by family. So maybe try a database of parents, I don’t know.

Oh, third option, he really wants to do phrenology and he figures if he does it on paedos no one will mind

We’ll continue that trend: predicting pedophilic behavior based solely on facial features, bringing levity to an otherwise serious crime.

what is wrong with you

Is this some sort of bait or is he really expecting this to help in whatever way it is he imagines this would help?

Science-fiction solutions for science-fiction problems!

Hey it’s just like The Clockwork Rocket if Greg Egan was an AI-doomer, an idiot, a nazi, and hated fun!

The gratuitous hate for washing machines in this is so funny. Dudes rock.

The French urologist by day eugenicist transhumanist crank by night Laurent Alexandre had an interesting perspective on the subject fifteen years ago. We should do eugenics and edit our brains to be better so as to counter the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. The robots will replace us if we don’t do rigorous embryo selection.

Incidentally he also warns that a modern day Stalin in possession of neuromachines and gene editing technologies would create what he terms “neuro-gulags”.

I don’t remember seeing Lesswrongers play with these sorts of ideas, which is a little surprising. But they’re reluctant to diminish the AI’s omnipotence I imagine.

I’ve played Geneforge. This is going to go badly for everyone involved.

Enders Game

you mean HPMOR of course

It’s really funny how HPMOR inherits the exact same problems from Ender’s Game like there was nothing at all to learn. Harry and Ender’s violence is recognised as maladaptive, a result of trauma, they might end the world or do a big genocide, but that’s because they’re so much smarter and more competent than anyone around them! They can keep their evil half (!!!) in check with the power of their big ethical brain (the good hemisphere???).

That’s an interesting palette choice on your generated illustrations my guys

Genopolitical

ew

Fucking hell, I don’t know how seriously I should take this (could it be Errol making things up?) but it is so utterly bizarre. I’ve just been staring off into space for a minute.

may the gods bless you and your crops

blueanon

BlueAnon (a portmanteau of blue and QAnon) is a term used to describe conspiracy theories which posit Donald Trump’s engagement in elaborate schemes to unlawfully seize or maintain control of the United States Government, independently or as the object of manipulation by foreign governments.

Huh? This doesn’t sound unreasonable.

Another BlueAnon theory posits that Ivana Trump was secretly cremated by Donald Trump to free room in her coffin to hide self-incriminating documents so as to conceal them from discovery by investigators.

Oh. All right.

I don’t think you can see the [tweet? “article”?] without an X account? It’s not working for me at any rate.

Also in the comments to the followup you’ve got people debating whether believing that there are genetic differences between races constitutes scientific racism.

Steve Sailer doesn’t think so. To which Philip replies

The point isn’t that what you’re saying isn’t true, that point is that for most people who have heard of Steve Sailer, Steve Sailer is the textbook example of a scientific racist. So I think we have a good working definition of scientific racism, which is just, whatever Steve Sailer says. I say this unironically with no disrespect; I also consider myself a scientific racist.

TGGP asks

Who doesn’t think there are genetic differences between the races?

gottem