r/SneerClub archives

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How To Pretend That You Are Smart (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/how-to-pretend-that-you-are-smart/)

posted at July 29, 2020 04:21 AM by u/Epistaxis

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Free Speech Defenders Don’t Understand the Critique Against Them (https://arcdigital.media/free-speech-defenders-dont-understand-the-critique-against-them-4ed8327c0879)

posted at July 15, 2020 01:39 PM by u/Epistaxis

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Having your real name attached to posts that are against certain political topics or narratives, can be borderline-lethal in 2020. He's scared, and rightfully so. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610435)

posted at June 23, 2020 07:03 AM by u/sue_me_please

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Rationalist moment (/r/slatestarcodex/comments/fdvloz/what_wording_do_you_use_to_tell_people_theyre/)

posted at March 05, 2020 04:32 PM by u/snowtime1

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Sneer on Dawkins found in the wild (https://twitter.com/NedHartley/status/1228968325994156032)

posted at February 16, 2020 02:33 PM by u/repe_sorsa

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Race science? In *my* New York Times? It's more likely than you think. (https://archive.md/7UEFZ)

posted at December 28, 2019 11:00 PM by u/Epistaxis

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"Pinker is no intellectual historian, so perhaps it should not be surprising that he overlooks a key Enlightenment debate ... over the power, foundation, and limits of rational inquiry, perhaps the core example of Enlightenment self-directed skepticism." (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pinkers-pollyannish-philosophy-and-its-perfidious-politics/)

posted at December 16, 2019 07:24 PM by u/ArbysMakesFries

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vintage Peter Singer: Unspeakable Conversations (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/magazine/unspeakable-conversations.html)

posted at December 07, 2019 03:04 AM by u/giziti

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Random acts of madness: all the things that Dominic Cummings is getting wrong about game theory. "One fundamental principle of game theory is that you know what the game is in the first place." (https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-dominic-cummings-game-theory-boris-johnson-parliament-supreme-court-a9106926.html)

posted at September 16, 2019 05:27 PM by u/dgerard

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the concept of a STEM Hippocratic Oath DESTROYED by r/programming (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/crbo9z/the_concept_of_a_stem_hippocratic_oath_destroyed/)

posted at August 16, 2019 08:03 PM by u/brokenAmmonite

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"I'm not a white nationalist, but..." (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/bnzb9k/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_13_2019/end8lya/?context=1)

posted at May 14, 2019 05:46 AM by u/Throwaway_sneerer

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"Realize with surprise that there are very few anime characters you would actually want to sleep with in real life" (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1109545666441699328)

posted at March 26, 2019 11:44 PM by u/itisike

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Actual Moral Relativism deployed in defense of slavery (https://www.reddit.com/r/themotte/comments/ax3czw/_/eht5zgf)

posted at March 05, 2019 05:56 PM by u/Hailanathema

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Rationalist is concerned with the most vulnerable people in society. Minorities or trans people? Nope. Porn stars. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/a1o48s/rationalist_is_concerned_with_the_most_vulnerable/)

posted at November 30, 2018 02:17 AM by u/FormerRationalist35

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Actually if you think about it rationally, feminists are the *real* racist Trump supporters (https://thereconstructionistblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/but-what-about-teh-menz-an-intersectional-analysis-of-misandry-mens-rights-and-feminism/)

posted at October 29, 2018 12:58 PM by u/IneffectiveEgoist

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13

A podcast about "Being a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist" (http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-216-diana-fleischman-on-being-a-transhumanist-evolutionar.html)

posted at September 10, 2018 07:53 PM by u/zhezhijian

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13

Boy do I hate that roman numeral chapter style SA has popularized among his fans (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/8lcigo/boy_do_i_hate_that_roman_numeral_chapter_style_sa/)

posted at May 22, 2018 06:50 PM by u/lobotomy42

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See Comments for More Sneers! In which our favorite Scott Aaronson talks about "This Week's BS" (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3248)

posted at March 29, 2018 01:48 PM by u/hawkdove85

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AI Is as Risky as Pandemics and Nuclear War, Top CEOs Say, Urging Global Cooperation (https://time.com/6283386/ai-risk-openai-deepmind-letter/)

posted at May 30, 2023 08:02 PM by u/RedditorsRSoyboys

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Dinosaur Comics making fun of longtermism (https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4051)

posted at May 24, 2023 01:13 PM by u/vistandsforwaifu

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Average SSC enjoyer doesn't want AGI to get tortured. (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/wg87rj/gwern_on_the_state_of_ai/ij0lq8g)

posted at May 21, 2023 05:29 PM by u/n0n3f0rce

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NSFW Are there any positive AI communities that don't have the problems noted on this subreddit? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12j3h4h/are_there_any_positive_ai_communities_that_dont/)

posted at April 12, 2023 12:24 AM by u/throwawaydthrowawayd

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The combination of ppl thinking they're "rational" & rationalize every bonkers idea they have with "math" & "science," & their fanaticism + god complex is exhausting. (https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1624548093701287937?s=46&t=3yeP7iyIOSuBo3ZfBk6mcQ)

posted at February 12, 2023 06:34 AM by u/Considerable-Girth

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NSFW not just neoreactionaries (https://i.redd.it/35k5a0nq6j6a1.png)

posted at December 17, 2022 10:03 PM by u/Epistaxis

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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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