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Re:Lost Advanced Civilizations by causality0 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:35AM (#24207167)
LessWrong is another altar at which your worship should include a grain of salt. They have quite a lot of great articles but they often fail to do a sanity check when their conclusions become ridiculous. See also, the Roko's basilisk stupidity.
Re:Lost Advanced Civilizations by a1369209993 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:56AM (#24208176)
That is as true or more of every altar[0], so I'm not sure what your point is.

0: "Worship me without salt or die!" is a reason to engage in premeditated deicide, not worship.

Re:Lost Advanced Civilizations by causality0 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:09PM (#24214771)
Reading the articles it's very easy to get an impression that LessWrong is a "best of the best" community.
Re:Lost Advanced Civilizations by a1369209993 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:28AM (#24223626)
They are. But that's a very depressing statement about everyone else. About them it's more damning with faint praise.