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It’s Official — Steven Pinker Is Full of Shit (https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/international-poverty-line-ipl-world-bank-philip-alston)
posted at July 10, 2020 06:34 PM by u/completely-ineffable
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Seasteading. Historical Illiteracy. Bad Economics. Lack of Understanding of How International Relations Work. PUA Advice. Geoffrey Miller Tweets. Think I've Got A Bingo Here! (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ghhern/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_11_2020/fq8wvsd/)
posted at May 13, 2020 04:09 PM by u/Throwaway_sneerer
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Only a high-decoupler capable of abstract thought can appreciate Dawkins's brilliant thoughts on eugenics (https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1229768306598404098?s=19)
posted at February 18, 2020 09:02 PM by u/completely-ineffable
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Rationalist adviser advises sterilization of the underclass (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/f4w6in/rationalist_adviser_advises_sterilization_of_the/)
posted at February 16, 2020 07:59 PM by u/Meadowbottom
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Let us all remember the time members of the Less Wrong community responded to a member being hounded to death by the justice system by blaming bluepill ideology for warping his mind (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLzGnMcbhBQmu4txA/link-noam-chomsky-killed-aaron-schwartz)
posted at January 12, 2020 05:36 PM by u/Myrdradek
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"If I am against mass immigration from people of other races because I believe most other ethnicities are more racist than white people and if they immigrate in mass will form power blocks and voting blocks to advance their own interests over the issues of the whole, does that make me a racist?" (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/d822fo/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_september_23/f1vmv32/)
posted at September 29, 2019 08:51 PM by u/sue_me_please
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Elon Musk has invented the tunnel (not truly rationalist related but I feel like this sub will appreciate it) (https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-hyperloop-tunnel-is-now-just-a-normal-1835024474)
posted at May 25, 2019 09:30 PM by u/abiteoffry
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[tangential] Former alt-right grifter on how it works: "And the emphasis on genetics and IQ was appealing as well. 'They see it almost as a moral value. They think that people with high IQ confers them with some kind of super-ability and makes them leaders, natural leaders.'" (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/katie-mchugh)
posted at May 02, 2019 02:29 PM by u/dgerard
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There is no mincing this, we are evil (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1099136663471644672)
posted at February 23, 2019 06:10 PM by u/zhezhijian
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no (https://i.redd.it/burjfuiak8g21.png)
posted at February 13, 2019 01:09 AM by u/vsbobclear
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How solid is DIY HBD? Identical twins try home DNA tests. Not only do they get different results from different companies, but 23andMe gives the twins different results. 23andMe's explanation when caught: "its algorithm", "statistical estimates" (https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-marketplace-1.4980976)
posted at January 18, 2019 08:31 PM by u/dgerard
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Lmfao click this subreddit and scroll around a bit. (https://www.reddit.com/r/cognitiveTesting)
posted at June 10, 2023 10:29 AM by u/clueless1245
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LessWrong: The AI god is real because empiricism is an illusion (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/13ttnc3/lesswrong_the_ai_god_is_real_because_empiricism/)
posted at May 28, 2023 06:53 AM by u/grotundeek_apocolyps
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New theory: Eliezer is a false flag operation to get me to support LLMs and AGI research? (https://i.redd.it/gpgm9qy39eka1.jpg)
posted at February 25, 2023 03:25 PM by u/textlossarcade
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Carla Cramer, Vox - "How effective altruists ignored risk" (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23569519/effective-altrusim-sam-bankman-fried-will-macaskill-ea-risk-decentralization-philanthropy)
posted at January 30, 2023 10:41 PM by u/KevinR1990
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Yudkowsky suggests (I think) Bostrum’s apology written by skynet junior? (https://i.redd.it/8kdlm6yq1gca1.jpg)
posted at January 16, 2023 12:54 PM by u/textlossarcade
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“Prediction Markets Good” & “AGI is nigh”- Pick one. (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8c7LycgtkypkgYjZx/agi-and-the-emh-markets-are-not-expecting-aligned-or)
posted at January 11, 2023 04:21 PM by u/Lurking_Chronicler_2
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Scott Alexander Siskind and Caroline Ellison discuss the risks of overleveraging in finance (originally posted Feb 9, 2021) (https://speakertoyesterday.tumblr.com/post/700814996538523648/worldoptimization-slatestarscratchpad-all)
posted at December 16, 2022 11:33 PM by u/GaiusLeviathanXV
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SBF was a poster on the AstralCodexTen comments section? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/znlkv0/sbf_was_a_poster_on_the_astralcodexten_comments/)
posted at December 16, 2022 06:32 PM by u/GaiusLeviathanXV
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Scott discovers the problem of self-knowledge! A novel philosophical problem untouched by academia and philosophy (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/can-people-be-honestly-wrong-about)
posted at November 25, 2022 04:58 PM by u/sissiffis
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Go Republican, Young EA! (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/myympkZ6SuT59vuEQ/go-republican-young-ea)
posted at July 03, 2022 02:49 PM by u/runnerx4
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About Scott or no? (https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1521999956260839425)
posted at May 05, 2022 03:35 AM by u/lobotomy42
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Did Steve Sailer spread false pedophilia accusations? (https://marxbro1917.substack.com/p/did-steve-sailer-spread-false-pedophilia?s=w)
posted at March 16, 2022 01:12 PM by u/MarxBroshevik
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Hereticon! Crank Magnetism, the conference. Everything about this is awesome. Funded by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Features several rationalist and IDW favourites. (https://i.redd.it/z75827w9jxc81.jpg)
posted at January 20, 2022 11:45 PM by u/dgerard
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Center for Undermining Rationality (CFUR) (https://twitter.com/Alephwyr/status/1446674820960174084)
posted at October 09, 2021 06:20 AM by u/mtraven
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