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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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Rationalist writes an amusingly defensive parody/essay on “The Ones who Walk Away From Omelas.” (https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com/storynotestrain)
posted at August 21, 2022 08:35 PM by u/Bradley271
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"obama probably clears the 120 iq bar. less sure about clinton" (https://i.redd.it/wpn57wcm9sl81.png)
posted at March 06, 2022 03:39 PM by u/sverlook
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This bloody brainfart is doing the current right wing Djokovic schtick of 'getting the rona', believing it will be the booster shot they need, instead of 'big pharma bully' vaccine. Big brain motte time! (https://i.redd.it/353ib6y5e6b81.jpg)
posted at January 12, 2022 03:28 AM by u/marderapc
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Update your priors: evil AI is coming, and it's trained on r/AmItheAsshole (https://mobile.twitter.com/mtrc/status/1449336196295966720)
posted at October 19, 2021 12:27 PM by u/shinigami3
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Scott is...happy?...that Mencius Moldbug's terminology is catching on at Fox News ("mainstream TV") (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/o6cdoq/scott_ishappythat_mencius_moldbugs_terminology_is/)
posted at June 23, 2021 01:02 PM by u/sverlook
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NSFW Off to see the Wizards: Nazi radicalization features a LW -> SSC -> Sailer pathway (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ml2zya/off_to_see_the_wizards_nazi_radicalization/)
posted at April 06, 2021 03:59 AM by u/aseparatecodpeace
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slatestarcodex anagram forum "datasecretslox" tries to discuss Cecil the Lion, explores how "suffering, having emotions, or otherwise feeling things" is not a "sufficient criterion" for having a right not to be tortured (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lrjm52/slatestarcodex_anagram_forum_datasecretslox_tries/)
posted at February 24, 2021 06:22 PM by u/Front_Fortune
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The hackers learn about the Indian caste system and are delighted that they can use that knowledge to confirm their favorite biases. "Perhaps castes selected for higher IQ, and ignoring that effect is burying your head in the sand?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558237)
posted at September 22, 2020 06:59 PM by u/sue_me_please
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Very super serious intellectual James Linsay (of the Grievance Studies grifters) is having a minor twitter meltdown after a video of him practicing his anime sword technique is repeatedly posted. (https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1261877968009379840)
posted at May 17, 2020 05:46 PM by u/DELETED
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The UK saw this evening how LessWrong rationalism plays out when you try to apply it to real things - not so well. Here's poptart on precisely how Dominic Cummings, the World's Most Famous LW Rationalist, messed this one up. #classicdom (https://irrationallyspeaking.home.blog/2019/10/22/dominics-basilisk-part-1/)
posted at October 22, 2019 10:58 PM by u/dgerard
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TheMotte summarized in a 2-minute video (https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI)
posted at May 26, 2019 09:08 PM by u/895158
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You madmen, you trained an AI with what? (GPT2 trained with culture war threads) (https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulator_GPT2/)
posted at May 18, 2019 05:43 PM by u/zabuni
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Yud (https://i.redd.it/716ekd72jup21.jpg)
posted at April 02, 2019 12:39 PM by u/vsbobclear
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that time an Effective Altruist literally proposed starting a farm of rats with wires in their pleasure centres, because that would increase average world happiness. They actually found a worse cause than MIRI. (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wtNCs2TgtDpu3W7Ke/charities-i-would-like-to-see)
posted at February 27, 2019 10:24 AM by u/dgerard
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/r/SSC user posts a meme, gets downvoted and banned - just kidding, the meme was pro-HBD so he gets no ban and 50 upvotes (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/achgor/rssc_user_posts_a_meme_gets_downvoted_and_banned/)
posted at January 04, 2019 11:53 AM by u/895158
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Nomination for the most Yudkowskyian sentence: "It is perhaps difficult to convey the extent to which that is obvious at a wordless glance if you are simultaneously fluent in fiction-writing and algorithmic complexity." (https://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/a8y7yi/a_somewhat_disappointed_review_of_this_great_book/ecjj24a/)
posted at December 28, 2018 10:42 PM by u/completely-ineffable
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A Rationalist Pearl (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/9ltr1i/a_rationalist_pearl/)
posted at October 06, 2018 05:59 AM by u/TheHiveMindSpeaketh
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A Beginning Rationalist's Guide to Cognitive Dissonance (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/9jt6qq/a_beginning_rationalists_guide_to_cognitive/)
posted at September 29, 2018 02:43 AM by u/TheHiveMindSpeaketh
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Followup to my thread on Kathy Forth, Abuse, and the LessWrong community. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/8sp5sz/followup_to_my_thread_on_kathy_forth_abuse_and/)
posted at June 21, 2018 04:59 AM by u/PolyamorousNephandus
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a defining feature of meritocratic societies is that ancestry determines how successful you are (obviously) (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0332-5)
posted at June 04, 2018 03:42 AM by u/onomatodoxast
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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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Jaan Tallinn goes full hardcore AI doomer in Newsweek op-ed (https://www.newsweek.com/artificial-intelligence-tech-risk-skype-google-1798280)
posted at May 06, 2023 02:00 AM by u/grotundeek_apocolyps
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Time: The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI (https://time.com/6273743/thinking-that-could-doom-us-with-ai/)
posted at April 27, 2023 02:19 AM by u/cashto
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Galaxy-brain basilisk compiling: Yuddism infiltrates ChatGPT via "a significant amount of written material available online" (https://twitter.com/DanielleFong/status/1648836178802790401/photo/1)
posted at April 20, 2023 12:21 AM by u/lithiumbrigadebait
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