Motivation gaps: Why so much EA criticism is hostile and lazy — EA Forum
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Disclaimer: While I criticize several EA critics in this article, I am myself on the EA-skeptical side of things (especially on AI risk). …

includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it’s not a CASTLE it’s a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,

  • @SoyweiserEnglish
    26•2 months ago

    The average r/sneerclub post consisted of finding something seemingly absurd or offensive said by a rationalist and then mocking it. The resulting threads are obviously biased and not epistemically rigorous.

    This is correct

    Like, Wytham abbey was technically a manor house

    Lol, ‘technically it was a manor house not a castle’ come on, you cannot just complain about how low effort sc is and then post something as silly as that.

    Wait, was this bait? Have I been baited?