r/SneerClub archives

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The Dark Elf (https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/curtis-yarvin-thiel-carlyle-monarchism-reactionary)

posted at January 15, 2023 01:20 PM by u/psychothumbs

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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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that time Prof. Max Tegmark President, Future of Life Institute was gonna send $100,000 to Swedish neo-Nazis. Tegmark has referred all questions to his lawyer. OK. (https://expo.se/2023/01/elon-musk-funded-nonprofit-run-mit-professor-offered-finance-swedish-pro-nazi-group)

posted at January 13, 2023 06:09 PM by u/dgerard

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Not content to let the fires die down, SBF has started his own substack. (https://sambf.substack.com/p/ftx-pre-mortem-overview)

posted at January 13, 2023 03:55 PM by u/DELETED

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The dude who runs LessWrong is VeryWrong on Bostrom's racism (https://twitter.com/ohabryka/status/1613440176776425474?s=20&t=9IPMjMZDxt98LxQno3wtwA)

posted at January 13, 2023 03:09 AM by u/MusicalColin

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Cunning AI seduces and manipulates helpless rationalist (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/10ada9b/cunning_ai_seduces_and_manipulates_helpless/)

posted at January 12, 2023 10:44 PM by u/NaiveDeontologist

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Bostrom Apologizes For Old Email On HBD Views (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/109tkal/bostrom_apologizes_for_old_email_on_hbd_views/)

posted at January 12, 2023 07:29 AM by u/fanuchman

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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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Bloomberg with a puff piece on cryonics (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-08/want-to-avoid-death-maybe-cryonics-isn-t-crazy)

posted at January 10, 2023 08:24 AM by u/vistandsforwaifu

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The Dangers of a Safe Large Language Model: Gay Liberal Hitler & the Domination of the Human Race (critique of AI Safety, AI Alignment, other dominant ideologies of tech) (https://harmlessai.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-a-safe-large-language)

posted at December 29, 2022 11:37 PM by u/gothgirl420666

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More of the famed “Scott and Bailey”: NYT isn’t the same as infowars, just very similar (https://i.redd.it/771uxrc87y8a1.jpg)

posted at December 29, 2022 09:40 PM by u/textlossarcade

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Sam Harris brownnosing SBF (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/zxgy6l/sam_harris_brownnosing_sbf/)

posted at December 28, 2022 06:28 PM by u/Teddy642

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Slatescott is even getting lazy about justifying getting lazy with justifying his biases (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/selection-bias-is-a-fact-of-life)

posted at December 28, 2022 03:50 AM by u/textlossarcade

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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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46

The Rationalist ‘bihacking’ craze of ~2016 (https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/notes-on-the-success-of-bihacking/)

posted at December 25, 2022 06:22 PM by u/saucerwizard

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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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47

Have yourself a very theoretical Christmas (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/zur28k/have_yourself_a_very_theoretical_christmas/)

posted at December 25, 2022 05:02 AM by u/mtraven

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“People don’t have perfect insight into how their minds work unless I want to criticize education policy” - yudkowsky, I guess (https://i.redd.it/ywrt5zhtbz7a1.jpg)

posted at December 25, 2022 12:23 AM by u/textlossarcade

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Hey so the guy who wrote the Jacobin article on Moldbug is weirdly friendly with him (https://www.thaddeusrussell.com/)

posted at December 24, 2022 08:01 PM by u/Myrdradek

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"how do I signal my genuinely sweet and feminine nature on my dating profile? should it go before or after the section on wire fraud" (https://web.archive.org/web/20180402142019/https://worldoptimization.tumblr.com/post/172464351641/me-how-do-i-signal-my-genuinely-sweet-and)

posted at December 24, 2022 06:26 PM by u/GorillasAreForEating

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Indie rock musician David Berman was a sneerer (https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/cdjakw/purple_mountains_ama/etuxgqs/?context=3)

posted at December 23, 2022 08:23 PM by u/GorillasAreForEating

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'To understand “beep-boopism” as I will describe it here you first must understand rationalist tumblr.' (https://cromulentenough.tumblr.com/post/172258068576/worldoptimization-i-to-understand)

posted at December 22, 2022 12:53 PM by u/GorillasAreForEating

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Rationalists try the other side of UK politics: Labour for the Long Term, funding Labour MPs including Wes Streeting, is full of EAs pushing EA goals (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-long-term-effective-altruism-wes-streeting/)

posted at December 22, 2022 12:46 PM by u/dgerard

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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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Yudkowsky originally predicted that the singularity would happen in the year 2021 (https://web.archive.org/web/20081021051739/http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/singularity.html)

posted at December 21, 2022 10:10 PM by u/GaiusLeviathanXV

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