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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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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (11 children)

this kinda happened with antitank weapons and highest iteration now is antitank missile paired with anti-anti-antitank missile. it's rpg-30, russian wunderwaffe manufactured in symbolic numbers which only caused western militaries to develop countermeasures and was never used on large scale in any war

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Not really what I meant, but interesting.

That reminds me of the star wars missile defense system, which according to some stories was never real and just intended to make the Soviets waste a lot of resources on trying to counter it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

which according to some stories

this was cope, it was a defense funding scam

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps the same could be said of all ~~religions~~ of America.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"look, not everything is a defense funding scam"
"well that is"
....

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

it funded some fundamental research, fine by me

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