[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago

Does not seem uncommon under a subset of very privileged white gay men. So not shocked if Thiel does.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 23 hours ago

I need you to donate publicly under your real name and I want you to tell your friends how much money you gave me, since that’s the best way to show that you’re serious.

Thats a trap if I ever saw it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Prometheus a technologist? No he was a social media user.

"prometheus: hot take,

the greek gods: no give that back"

https://modmad.tumblr.com/post/758625466711228416

Also you do care just not in the way she hopes.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 23 hours ago

Thanks, despite talking about that book, I still have not found the energy to read it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Also this only works as long as the legal system isnt taken over.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

The whole title of Yuds book also isnt going to help.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance

His drama knob is always set to 11.

See also the previous article and how he talks about the "[fucking] NYT." Or better, dont look at that article.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I too would desperately want my thinking tools back, even if getting them back would put the entire galaxy at risk

Thats an addiction, gonna be fun when the prices go through the roof.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Digging into the literature around the related assassination markets might also help.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't have much to share (various positive stuff is a bit too personal to share, or just too banal (like how I got a new fan cheap while it was still freezing a few weeks before the heat wave)) but I do enjoy the thread. Thanks for making it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

First they came for the agents...

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The fact that in the community it was widely known who heartiste is (enough for Scott to publish an anti heartiste post) makes it clear they were in pretty deep. Normal places knew about this stuff from the 'the game' book (or later somebody like rooshv). Not the neonazi pua.

e: As youtube is spying on me personally, it suggested I watch 'how one book [the game] ruined sitcoms forever'

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As we don't have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is

Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.

But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.

And remember, no fed posting.

Edit: looks like his house also got shot. Archive (after the speculation in this thread, makes you wonder if this was a follow up false flag, as the bottle didn't break last time).

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Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

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Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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