r/SneerClub archives

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Cancel culture and capitalism (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lvdy0y/cancel_culture_and_capitalism/)

posted at March 01, 2021 04:47 PM by u/0x6e6f6f620a

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Hanson estimates "we will meet this kind of alien in roughly a half billion years" BECAUSE MATH (https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/12/how-far-aggressive-aliens.html)

posted at January 31, 2021 03:41 AM by u/entrechatquatre

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A hacker takes their "move fast and break things" philosophy into the real world and builds themselves a computer deathtrap (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24687458)

posted at October 06, 2020 11:14 PM by u/sue_me_please

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Highlights from thread feat. Glorious leader and scooter for the truly lazy (https://imgur.com/a/eNRis0f)

posted at July 14, 2020 09:42 PM by u/foobanana

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hanson.jpg (https://i.redd.it/lrtruve1lwm21.jpg)

posted at March 18, 2019 04:21 PM by u/vsbobclear

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2017: "'I wasn’t taught medieval history so it is not important' is not a real argument, but ok" - actual historian encounters and responds to a SSC blog post. "This entire argument hinges on taking biased first-person accounts as fact, which makes no goddamn sense." (https://goingmedievalblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/i-wasnt-taught-medieval-history-so-it-is-not-important-is-not-a-real-argument-but-ok/amp/)

posted at January 30, 2019 06:54 PM by u/dgerard

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Here are some of the things you'll hear when you sit down to dinner with the trailblazers of the intellectual smart intelligent. (https://twitter.com/g0m/status/1080147139349622785)

posted at January 26, 2019 05:37 PM by u/dgerard

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Jordan Peterson or Islamist Cleric? (trick question! they're all Peterson) (https://twitter.com/@JBPorCleric)

posted at June 10, 2018 05:27 AM by u/Analemma_

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Scott responds to "Pretty Loud For Being So Silenced" & co. By comparing being a phrenologist to being transgender, of course. (http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-popular-and-silenced/)

posted at May 23, 2018 02:37 PM by u/DegenerateRegime

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The "Robbers Cave" experiment, which Yudkowsky was really keen on, was a total fraud. The guy didn't get the results he wanted with the first group of kids, who made friends instead of fighting, so he ran it again until he got some who did. (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment)

posted at May 06, 2018 11:11 PM by u/dgerard

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So, turns out my (non-US) university has an effective altruism club (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/13f0mib/so_turns_out_my_nonus_university_has_an_effective/)

posted at May 11, 2023 09:27 PM by u/nephewmoment

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Largest early MIRI funder hooks LLMs up to military control and command (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU)

posted at April 28, 2023 03:29 PM by u/muchcharles

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Socrates reborn (https://twitter.com/spacepanty/status/1623863550514184192)

posted at February 11, 2023 01:26 AM by u/mtraven

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'Sequel' to a beloved Siskind classic from a self-described "autogynephilic". Now with twice the tedium! Oh, and that pesky, tepid trans advocacy? It's been massaged into good ol' transphobia, definitely not stale even for 2018. (http://unremediatedgender.space/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/)

posted at February 07, 2023 04:55 PM by u/endlessmoth

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11 dumb rules to overthink a conversation. (https://twitter.com/aella_girl/status/1619760467542687744?s=46&t=dKWFeheYSZj1BcxP_dynjw)

posted at January 31, 2023 08:13 AM by u/Considerable-Girth

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Economist article is way too trusting, but the first paragraph has a half-decent sneer (https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-new-tech-worldview)

posted at December 26, 2022 09:19 PM by u/lobotomy42

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the biggest problem with trying to simulate rationalists for acausal reasons (https://clickhole.com/social-media-nightmare-some-bot-created-an-instagram-account-imitating-this-woman-and-all-her-friends-decided-they-like-the-fake-account-better/)

posted at November 04, 2022 03:07 PM by u/acausalrobotgod

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See Comments for More Sneers! Hackernews commenter criticizes Hanson's last article - a small-scale discussion about the Rat' sphere ensue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285680)

posted at November 20, 2021 09:48 AM by u/azurisme

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Robin Hanson on astrobiology and the pending robot takeover (https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/05/the-artificial-life-taboo-in-biology.html?s=09)

posted at May 30, 2021 02:58 AM by u/ProphetOfTime

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Rationalism and Jobs (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/n14toa/rationalism_and_jobs/)

posted at April 29, 2021 01:53 PM by u/DELETED

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Eigen thinks they’re above Chauvin trial (https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1384615407743471623?s=21)

posted at April 20, 2021 09:24 PM by u/incredibleavacadoman

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Aella describes a bay area rationalist party (https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1375892593377112065?s=19)

posted at March 28, 2021 04:28 AM by u/completely-ineffable

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Motter complains about "inner cities" and miscegination, mod bends over backwards to say that they're not necessarily racist (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/lk8abe/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_february_15/gnn0rs7/)

posted at February 16, 2021 06:21 PM by u/hypersoar

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You don’t like Scott Alexander, I get it, but what writers/thinkers do you like? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/l3lhko/you_dont_like_scott_alexander_i_get_it_but_what/)

posted at January 23, 2021 09:52 PM by u/miobrien

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Thought leaders and chicken sexers (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/k85oaa/thought_leaders_and_chicken_sexers/)

posted at December 07, 2020 12:26 AM by u/AllNewTypeFace

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