[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 18 hours ago

This sort of stuff makes me feel bad for Ozy. After a decade pushing back against this shit the community still likes it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 18 hours ago

The only reasons I see for using new apps is because the older ones got an 'update' where they made the ui worse and dropped some features and reliability.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 23 hours ago

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"Come to our event where men cut their toenails in public"

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

Just wait, when the AI agents are going to use those apps they will go to the moon!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Has it been 2 months already? I was wondering when they would turn up in the news again.

E: I'm not serious, I came across this video on yt which fulfilled my 'every 2 months' thing already. It was actually a bit interesting, as it turns out both of them have a long mostly unscrubbed online history which they tracked down and analyzed, turns out she has a history of being a weird quirky person, and they both have an air of 'want to become internet famous/create an internet scam' sort of thing.

The comments on that vid are great as well (wait for it) check this one out:

It is rich for you to skewer anything Simone and Malcolm miss with their podcast when they post 5 days a week (you neglected to mention) and you can’t even maintain your schedule or throw up a post on bluesky when you are off schedule. Also, because you two are genetic dead ends you don’t know that a mother of 5 cannot be a night person, she was up with a baby when she emailed. Malcolm and Simone talk in different rooms because she always is looking after a baby, and babies can randomly make noise so Simone can mute and Malcolm can take over. Maybe you can meet a baby one day and learn how they work. But I will say this episode is better researched than the usual “read article titles and giggle” podcasts you put out.

This comment was left by none other than "Diana Fleischman" Yes, that one, the evolutionary psychologist, and partner of Primal "I'm no longer allowed near students" Poly (For those who remember sneerclub from reddit, he was a regular subject. For example).

Amazing how small this nazi nerd world is. And how bad they are at defending their own. Feel free to leave 'ad hominem' reactions to that. (I will not as my yt profile links back to my real life).

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

Don't worry, the acausalrobotgod will save us from everything.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

The good thing about the elon musk internet sats is that they are too low to easily cause Kessler's, they burn up in the higher atmos.

The bad thing is that they are made of a lot of aluminum and at that altitude it makes climate change a lot worse.

So you do not have to worry about Kessler's syndrome. As we are gonna burn.

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

It is always enjoyable to see Americans realize their free speech laws/absolutism is a bit odd actually.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

This is an interesting development tbh. And makes sense.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

Oracle as in a confirmation of facts protocol

Amazing that on first glance it looks like a smart contract 'all done by code' thing, but then the reveals comes and it is just a few rich people again.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Congrats to lesswrong, another one of their big ideas has reached the mainstream. (And it is eugenics).

Skeet from motherjones "Some of the same billionaires who bankrolled AI now admit the technology could one day kill us all.

And they’re funding a new plan to stop it—genetically engineered genius babies."

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

I don't think op has thought that well about it, this felt more like a gotcha argument. 'you say it is all unethical but I found a small (for me) exception so all your arguments are invalid.

Saw much of people do a similar thing on bsky last weekend. A sort of thing going (from a different era) 'ha you say you are totally against blockchains/nfts? Well you still use github and that is a blockchain, sl better stop using all software'.

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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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