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“being a successful Nazi required a great deal of initiative and out-of-the-box thinking... [gas chambers were] not the result of top-down planning. It was the result of the Nazis cultivating multiple Jew-killing startups... In many ways Nazism represented rebellion against authority.” (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/e85hvr/_/faf93pf/?context=1)
posted at December 11, 2019 05:59 AM by u/yemwez
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Yud challenges twitter to match his math genius, ends up being wrong (https://mobile.twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1185603776486334464)
posted at October 21, 2019 12:42 PM by u/uglyfish420xxxblaze
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Man wins writing-talent lottery, blames others for his environment being desolate of life and thought (https://imgur.com/a/2vtIo)
posted at September 12, 2019 06:06 PM by u/dbtbl
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Steven Pinker's very normal and totally not creepy thoughts on rape and feminism (https://twitter.com/kate_manne/status/1149905576337559553)
posted at July 25, 2019 10:06 PM by u/zhezhijian
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Content Warning So Brent Dill started his rat career in the SSC comments section (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/9i72y1/so_brent_dill_started_his_rat_career_in_the_ssc/)
posted at September 23, 2018 08:57 AM by u/narugawa
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<——— Upvote this post to signal virtue. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/63kdzi/upvote_this_post_to_signal_virtue/)
posted at April 05, 2017 08:58 AM by u/gigaphotonic
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Flyer at my local university advertises new LLM religion and wonders if all moral and political philosophy is "obsolete" 🙃. No mention of the usual targets but thought this sub would enjoy. (https://i.redd.it/axxn858fs8za1.jpg)
posted at May 11, 2023 06:08 PM by u/camelCaseCondition
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NSFW apologies if this is inappropriate here but I wrote an article showing how, among AI experts, Eliezer Yudkowsky is literally mid (https://alfredmacdonald.substack.com/p/do-ai-experts)
posted at February 28, 2023 11:17 PM by u/DELETED
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I really shouldn’t expect better from Vox, but I’m supremely annoyed that all their AI coverage is about “alignment” and potential world ending catastrophe, rather than the actual real dangers. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/10y2clm/i_really_shouldnt_expect_better_from_vox_but_im/)
posted at February 09, 2023 06:38 PM by u/PapaverOneirium
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Big Yud on catgirls (https://i.imgur.com/ropRaCm.jpg)
posted at November 21, 2022 11:43 PM by u/thetrombonist
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[NSFW] Like a car crash you can't look away from, I went to the post-Reddit site for theMotte, and this was one of the first posts I found (nsfw for words you probably don't want to read) (https://i.imgur.com/gorym2G.jpg)
posted at October 02, 2022 05:03 AM by u/cutty2k
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Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/wvsdo9/understanding_longtermism_why_this_suddenly/)
posted at August 23, 2022 03:54 PM by u/blakestaceyprime
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See Comments for More Sneers! Paul Graham: "80% of my views end up on the left". Wanna guess what the 20% that don't are? (https://i.imgur.com/Zbdee5I.png)
posted at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM by u/DELETED
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TIL middle class = emerald mines (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/29/the-smartest-person-in-any-room-anywhere-in-defence-of-elon-musk-by-douglas-coupland)
posted at August 29, 2021 05:56 PM by u/Consistent_Actuator
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Why the solution that exists only in my head does not solve the problem that exists only in my head? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/mxubc5/why_the_solution_that_exists_only_in_my_head_does/)
posted at April 24, 2021 10:13 PM by u/slator_hardin
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NSFW The Bay Area Rationalist Community is basically just NXIVM for silicon valley nerds. A whistleblower has made allegations of rape, statutory rape, BDSM torture, blackmail, secret payouts, and coverups. (https://everythingtosaveit.how/case-study-cfar/)
posted at March 02, 2021 01:31 PM by u/DELETED
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Content Warning I regret to inform you the Mottzis are at it again: "Not only do White Americans not have to "atone" for slavery, from a rigorous historical perspective they should be pat on the back for having the least bad version of slavery in history." (https://reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/lphu6c/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_february_22/goriro6/)
posted at February 27, 2021 09:34 PM by u/ReactionaryRoaster
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Classic: The time LW got a free lesson on AI from a real AI expert. (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gJGjyWahWRyu9TEMC/muehlhauser-wang-dialogue)
posted at February 11, 2021 07:40 AM by u/DELETED
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James Lindsay everybody (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo6-YBAU0AAjpo3?format=jpg&name=large)
posted at December 11, 2020 09:42 AM by u/cherubling
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RATIONAL: Scott unable to figure out why people would care about racial equality in education outcomes for reasons beyond "pure aesthetics". (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/j9kxl0/comment/g8kln5h)
posted at October 13, 2020 07:02 AM by u/OneInchPoster
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Distribution of historically significant figures according to Charles Murray (https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1287198656274276354?s=19)
posted at July 26, 2020 02:24 PM by u/psychothumbs
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Remember when Steven Pinker publicly went after a grad student who complained her phd advisor was sexually harassing her (https://twitter.com/CantlonLab/status/1280546716912148482?s=19)
posted at July 08, 2020 02:16 AM by u/completely-ineffable
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Uhhhh, did you know that the only reason people talk to each other is to signal how rich and hot you are? *cocks eyebrow scientifically* (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/arkPug74zyfn9Ds3G/signaling-why-people-have-conversations)
posted at May 20, 2020 10:43 AM by u/OneInchPoster
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Two in five 'AI startups' essentially have no AI, mega-survey of nearly 3,000 upstarts finds (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/05/eu_startups_no_ai/)
posted at March 07, 2019 04:24 AM by u/deadcelebrities
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Most-Senior Doomsdayer grants patience to fallen Turing Award winner. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/13yanmm/mostsenior_doomsdayer_grants_patience_to_fallen/)
posted at June 02, 2023 11:58 AM by u/Teddy642
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