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NSFW A thread on how the cult attractors in rationalism keep people in the cult and the associated little sub-cults (https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1542760464886550528)
posted at April 27, 2023 10:58 AM by u/dgerard
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Contest to rename EY according to his proposed naming scheme (https://i.redd.it/vrtdagfa6sa61.jpg)
posted at January 11, 2021 10:37 PM by u/textlossarcade
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Strong evidence that we are currently being tortured within a basilisk: (https://i.redd.it/qu3ovq4bcxc51.png)
posted at July 25, 2020 03:40 AM by u/IsThisSatireOrNot
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4 Easy Ways to Lie with Bayes' Rule and Call It Rationality (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/9ninfm/4_easy_ways_to_lie_with_bayes_rule_and_call_it/)
posted at October 12, 2018 09:01 AM by u/TheHiveMindSpeaketh
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Roko's Nonsencical Draft of a contract for "Humanity United for the Singularity" (https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1651740662436339713?t=e-ddOXziKxMCRiCwqWtq_A&s=19)
posted at April 29, 2023 06:19 PM by u/Xopher001
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Some rationalists experience a small epiphany: maybe professional researchers really don’t believe in the robot apocalypse? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/10buvl1/some_rationalists_experience_a_small_epiphany/)
posted at January 14, 2023 06:02 PM by u/grotundeek_apocolyps
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"Pinker is troubled by what he sees as rationality’s image problem. 'Rationality is uncool,' he laments. It isn’t seen as 'dope, phat, chill, fly, sick or da bomb.'" (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/books/review-rationality-steven-pinker.html)
posted at September 29, 2021 02:38 PM by u/Epistaxis
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SSC Attempts to Review David Harvey's "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/n5lebb/ssc_attempts_to_review_david_harveys_a_brief/)
posted at May 05, 2021 05:24 PM by u/EyeballHeadedDandy
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Drama on rat-adjacent twitter as harassment from ethnonationalists creates a schism (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/msgbpy/drama_on_ratadjacent_twitter_as_harassment_from/)
posted at April 17, 2021 12:31 AM by u/ConcernedHibernation
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Armchair Empirical Psychology with EY (https://i.redd.it/l6g0sxwvw6f61.jpg)
posted at February 03, 2021 04:27 AM by u/textlossarcade
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Yudkowsky attempts to solve a non-computable problem with proof-by-metaphor (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12jb0t8/yudkowsky_attempts_to_solve_a_noncomputable/)
posted at April 12, 2023 05:16 AM by u/grotundeek_apocolyps
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We must burn Galileo to ensure the "heliocentrism" mind virus does not destroy our society (https://i.redd.it/6swcgt6jtffa1.png)
posted at January 31, 2023 08:21 PM by u/DigitalEskarina
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Sequences classic of the day: Sparkly Elites. "these CEOs and CTOs and hedge-fund traders, these folk of the mid-level power elite, seemed *happier* and more *alive*." my dude have you never heard of cocaine (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKpByWmsZ8WmpHtYa/competent-elites)
posted at December 25, 2022 03:51 PM by u/dgerard
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David Chalmers: "is there a canonical source for "the argument for AGI ruin" somewhere, preferably laid out as an explicit argument with premises and a conclusion? (https://twitter.com/davidchalmers42/status/1647333812584562688)
posted at April 16, 2023 04:23 PM by u/muchcharles
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Elite Universities Gave Us Effective Altruism, the Dumbest Idea of the Century (https://jacobin.com/2023/01/effective-altruism-longtermism-nick-bostrom-racism)
posted at January 20, 2023 01:39 PM by u/psychothumbs
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Yud: Computers are the greatest possible risk or benefit to humanity. Also Yud: *never learns to code* (https://twitter.com/js_thrill/status/1424235549703999488?s=20)
posted at August 08, 2021 05:33 PM by u/levand
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Nate Silver coming out in support of "just make numbers up and say you're doing Bayesian analysis" (https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1397881796155654144)
posted at May 27, 2021 11:54 AM by u/JohnPaulJonesSoda
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Scott Adams explains why only people like him are qualified to have a rational opinion on the Derek Chauvin trial (https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1380152539249664000)
posted at April 08, 2021 11:25 PM by u/clawsoon
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RIP SSC (https://slatestarcodex.com)
posted at June 23, 2020 06:25 AM by u/yemwez
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we've been saying (https://i.redd.it/zzbkpj2mj3531.jpg)
posted at June 18, 2019 03:02 PM by u/MarxismLesbianism
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Maybe Scott Aaronson ISN'T actually shtetl-optimized (https://i.redd.it/7vvtutth3d7a1.jpg)
posted at December 22, 2022 06:42 AM by u/mokuba_b1tch
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In defense of EAs buying a castle. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/zn2eap/in_defense_of_eas_buying_a_castle/)
posted at December 16, 2022 01:23 AM by u/acausalrobotgod
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Rationalist Harry Potter and the Collapse of Crypto (https://open.substack.com/pub/shatterzone/p/rationalist-harry-potter-and-the?r=183bsj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
posted at December 03, 2022 11:53 PM by u/MuhEsports
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TFW you're thirteen and mom says you have to clean your room (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/qj4jhu/tfw_youre_thirteen_and_mom_says_you_have_to_clean/)
posted at October 30, 2021 04:05 PM by u/sparkling_woodstar
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The Greatest Possible Superhero (https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-greatest-possible-superhero)
posted at July 14, 2021 03:21 PM by u/Lightwavers
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