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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.

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Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.” (www.lesswrong.com)

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[–] feistel@sns.feistel.party 5 points 2 years ago*

To figure this out, we have to start with 100% and then subtract the chance we're in a Truman Show world run by producers who think math is hilarious. Because nobody thinks math jokes are funny we can subtract zero and be 100% certain.