Linkpost note: I originally avoided cross-posting this to Lesswrong because I felt readers would likely feel it was too political, but now that top posters have been prominently advancing arguments on the specific premise this article argues against, and engaging in related naked political posturing as predicted by this model, I felt it was timely, relevant, and well within revealed standards.
I wish there was more high quality discussion about hot-button political topics on LessWrong, and don’t know who you’re referring to, but strong downvoted this post anyways because it does a lot of silly posturing/attention seeking and the premises are ill-defined and seem ill-supported.
Presumably Yudkowsky and Mowshowitz’s condemnations of individual political violence against people in the AI industry? (See Benquo’s comment on the latter.)
I feel like replying “you first.” You’re the one making all of these claims about how the FBI is involved in suppressing domestic political movements, and your only example is a raid that happened in the seventies.
COINTELPRO includes more than one example. Do you think that the FBI stopped doing their job immediately after the Church Committee hearings or that they kept doing their job but it made no difference?
The Wikipedia entry says Carter specifically banned political assassinations, which by omission implies a considerable remaining mandate to do COINTELPRO and MKULTRA style stuff.
I wish there was more high quality discussion about hot-button political topics on LessWrong, and don’t know who you’re referring to, but strong downvoted this post anyways because it does a lot of silly posturing/attention seeking and the premises are ill-defined and seem ill-supported.
Presumably Yudkowsky and Mowshowitz’s condemnations of individual political violence against people in the AI industry? (See Benquo’s comment on the latter.)
Do you have any specific arguments to offer here?
I feel like replying “you first.” You’re the one making all of these claims about how the FBI is involved in suppressing domestic political movements, and your only example is a raid that happened in the seventies.
COINTELPRO includes more than one example. Do you think that the FBI stopped doing their job immediately after the Church Committee hearings or that they kept doing their job but it made no difference?
The Wikipedia entry says Carter specifically banned political assassinations, which by omission implies a considerable remaining mandate to do COINTELPRO and MKULTRA style stuff.