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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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So, CEV presupposes false consciousness - that the average person's belief system is misaligned from reality due to incomplete information, incorrect presuppositions, and so forth.
And the idea is that a wise leader will choose for the people what the people would choose for themselves if they had a correct understanding of reality, whether the people think they want that or not?
I guess today in LessWrong, we are re-inventing Marxism.
One must always keep in mind that the Rationalist project is explicitly a high-modernist effort; it is a permanent fight against postmodernism which it can never win, a philosopher's lost cause. They can only look at Marxism as low art which must be elevated by sanctifying it with the nebulous ointment of "Western civilization".