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In the Going Clear documentary an author says that because Scientology was built by and for L. Ron Hubbard, people who follow Scientology are gradually moulded in his image and pick up his worst traits and neuroses. LessWrong was founded by a former child prodigy.....

They seem to believe that stereotypes often have a grain of truth to them, and it's thus ok to believe stereotypes.

I wonder where the superforecasters stand on aella being outed as a ghislain maxwell type fixer for the tescreal high priesthood.

Can you be outed when everyone knows that's what you are already?

It's just....blah.

You can't really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though

Irish election watch: Scary far right candidate uses scary AI images for his leaflet in the Dublin Bay North constituency.

Some anti-AI propaganda via spellingmistakescostlives

All

Coppers

Are

Bots

I'm scared of Big Ulster

I click the link and the first thing I see is an Andrew Tate NFT. "Yikes" doesn't cover it

Rationalists like to keep all their eugenics talk hypothetical or speculative, because if you ever hear or read about actual neo-eugenics it become clear how outrageous it is

Eugenics in action:

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

In a 2022 report, the institute said that because the tests were not adapted to take cultural differences into account, Greenlandic parents ran “the risk of obtaining low test scores, so that it is concluded, for example, that they have reduced cognitive abilities, without there being actual evidence for this."

Psychological assessments of her were made by a Danish-speaking psychologist. Kronvold, whose first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), is not fluent in Danish.

I think it happens often enough when someone rich and/or famous becomes disabled or has a disabled kid. See the whole world of alternative treatments for autism.

With a touch of, and maybe I'm being mean, "this particular bad thing shouldn't happen to someone like me! it must be that no one else tried hard enough to fix it till now"

I thought it was particularly telling that he says someone else in the "metabolic health" world warned him not to be mean about RFK. Take that as a sign that you're in kooksville!

It's very "should RFK Jr become a completely different person to the person he is and has been for years, he could really do some great stuff"

Please sneer at this article. I thought it was pissweak myself.

Edit: "Hear me out: RFK Jr could be a transformational health secretary"

Will a Republican-controlled Congress allow for more government regulation – even if it saves lives?

No. Next question.

We're going to be answering two essay questions in an in-class test instead of writing a paper this year specifically to prevent chat gpt abuse. Which he laughed and joked about because he really believes chat gpt can produce good results !

It was there and gone fairly quickly and I wouldn't say I'm a model student so I didn't say anything. I've talked to him about Chat GPT before though...

Did the human pet guy write this

He's using it to give examples of exam question answers. The embarrassment