[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago

Switchboard operators?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah he is one of the few space fan billionaires who actually didnt go up. Shows he at some level knows he is full of ahit.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 12 hours ago

Interesting first job your mind goes to there Yud. Might spend a little bit less time around people who regularly use the word goon but who never talk about the mob.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Iirc he even claimed he thought at times the world was a simulation made just for him. Im starting to think he isn't in a healthy place mentally.

E: ow god he thinks you can cool things in space, because vacuum.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago

"billionaires build prosperity" even has the causal arrow wrong. Bezos didn't start amazon as a billionaire for example.

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

Have not done eu5 so didnt know they improved the system. But indeed.

Not that it matters for the pro let billionaires colonize space crowd. As some thing some thing ai robots are magic. See also how they are planning datacenters in space, and dont think there is a real solution for the whole 'what if you need to flip a switch or replace a fan' problem.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Self growing like a video game, for example a colony in eu4, initially it costs a lot of gold per month to keep sending colonists, and when you reach 100% growth it becomes a full province on which you can build things.

If only more journalists go: 'we don't know what this means either, and when we asked him he started shouting slurs at us'.

given how inhospitable the moon is.

You could even say she is a harsh mistress.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

There seem to be a few people here now who just dump unrelated links without any explanation. (See also the one who just posted a dozen, which all seem to mention Trump). No idea what they are trying to do.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

“People are just jealous that they are poorer and weaker and uglier,”

Remember when Rationalists pretended to care about truth, steelmanning, ideological turning tests etc.

(Also implying that billionaires are strong and attractive is funny)

subverting any assumptions that Berkeley is all radical hippies

Yall still are radical hippies. Some hippies just love the boot.

California is, I believe, the only state to give health insurance to people who come into the country illegally,” Kauffman said nervously. “I think we probably should not be providing that.

Rationalism, the empathy removal training center.

“It is the intention of journalists to lie, which is why we need to not do anything to the journalists themselves, but we need to simply remove them as a class,” Annie said. “Just like Germany does to the extremist organizations.”

Well, Germany certainly did excel at removing classes of people from society

lol.

Her political awakening, she added, was watching the press “constantly pump out obviously fake information” against Trump during the 2016 election instead of reporting on the “actual abhorrent views he holds.”

Converted by Scott. (That 'people are saying I was wrong but actually I was right' disclaimer aged worse than the post).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

And it is still priced above its value.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The comment, see my prediction that when a movement runs out of idea they inevitably start a dating site for the in crowd, and 'lets do book summaries so we can all read faster'. Esp vague self help style places do this all the time.

In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is one of those books that people like to claim to have read but never did.

First I heard of this.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah an ace person will never leave you for someone who they find more sexually attractive. (The 'divorced' energy of these people is often off the scale, but they literally will invent a horny std before going to therapy).

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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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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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