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,

  • cornflake@awful.systemsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    In my skim of the two posts I didn’t get to any suggestion of “used to be favorable, then realized they’re led by duplicitous misanthropes” as a pathway.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      What about: “read a particular HP fanfic to try and fit in with a new crowd, was utterly repulsed by the narrative voice, discovered later it was part of what seemed like an elaborate cult that was weirdly sensitive to sneers, and finally found an outlet for their nerd bloodlust”

      • idiomaddict@feddit.deEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Or even: liked the Harry Potter fanfic and then discovered it was part of an incredibly weird and harmful subculture.

        I bet they’d hate that they’re basically the same as tumblr

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I wandered over somehow from RationalWiki, which I had known of since the science-blogging days of yore, and found it more congenial to my tastes than other subreddits. E.g., it was friendlier to excursions into the wonky and erudite than r/badphilosophy, and generally had a justifiably low tolerance for superficial politeness while maintaining a level of empathy for serious matters.