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www.lesswrong.com
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Summary: the moderators appear to be soft banning users with 'rate-limits' without feedback. A careful review of each banned user reveals it's common to be banned despite earnestly attempting to contribute to the site. Some of the most intelligent banned users have mainstream instead of EA views on AI. Note how the punishment lengths are all the same, I think it was a mass ban-wave of 3 week bans: Gears to ascension was here but is no longer, guess she convinced them it was a mistake.
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| | scottaaronson.blog

If I'm being honest, the most exciting recent development in my life is this: a little over a month ago, I stopped checking "SneerClub" (a place I'd previously resolved not even to name here, but I think an exception is warranted now). Permanently, cold turkey. I won't even visit to read their sneers about this...
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| | everythingstudies.com

A long postmortem of the conflict between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein over Harris's podcast with political scientist Charles Murray. I explain their disagreement as stemming from differences in interpretation of the original podcast, cultural expectations and psychological tendencies. Read more (36 min, 9100 words)
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There are at least some encouraging facts that suggest it is not too late to prevent a pure replicator takeover.
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