r/SneerClub archives

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See Comments for More Sneers! "The Gang Gets A Castle" (https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1600433194691502081)

posted at December 08, 2022 09:18 PM by u/Soyweiser

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Charity-linked money launched Sam Bankman-Fried's empire (https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2022/charity-money-launched-sam-bankman-frieds-empire)

posted at December 08, 2022 04:51 AM by u/rs16

5 comments archive.ph

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shocked that anyone could think Rationalists and Effective Altruists to be lying grifters. Spending the charity money on buying a literal fucking castle *clearly* maximizes the happiness of 10^54 hypothetical future human emulations living in the Matrix (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-grift-brothers/)

posted at December 07, 2022 09:31 PM by u/dgerard

29 comments archive.ph

43

Scott “Kolmogorov Complicity” Alexander says not to worry what anyone thinks about you (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/zeq27q/has_the_sbf_scandal_dampened_anyone_elses/iz8oipl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)

posted at December 07, 2022 07:08 PM by u/textlossarcade

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Finally, I had to try out the paperclip test, since it's practically the Hello World of alignment at this point. (https://twitter.com/zswitten/status/1598088286035415047)

posted at December 07, 2022 02:34 AM by u/cashto

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107

Eliezer is uniquely bad at inventing names for things (https://i.redd.it/c78581i8o84a1.jpg)

posted at December 06, 2022 03:32 AM by u/textlossarcade

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98

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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72

Slime Gang Steven Pinker remarks on how to safeguard rationality promoting institutions (https://i.imgur.com/ivISa8H.png)

posted at December 02, 2022 03:26 PM by u/fuck_your_diploma

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49

Scott discovers the problem of self-knowledge! A novel philosophical problem untouched by academia and philosophy (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/can-people-be-honestly-wrong-about)

posted at November 25, 2022 04:58 PM by u/sissiffis

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113

Eliezer speculates that AIs are bad at math proofs because earth mathematicians are bad at math (https://i.redd.it/vryeab7jr42a1.jpg)

posted at November 25, 2022 12:15 PM by u/textlossarcade

72 comments archive.ph

106

NSFW Rationalism's embrace of scientific racism is surprisingly little known, as is the SSC 2014 smoking gun email. Here's a rant I posted to the elephant site earlier. (https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/109399813229054752)

posted at November 24, 2022 05:39 PM by u/dgerard

41 comments archive.ph

61

Is astral codex fake? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/z2yqgv/is_astral_codex_fake/)

posted at November 23, 2022 07:53 PM by u/textlossarcade

26 comments archive.ph

33

Friends of the sub Brace Belden and Liz Franczak sneer at SBF, effective altruism, and rationalism (https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/moneyball-ii)

posted at November 23, 2022 07:00 PM by u/completely-ineffable

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70

" It's still unclear which direction the IQ <---> wealth correlation goes", but we should consider the possibility that wealth could not be entirely genetic (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/z1rnfk/its_still_unclear_which_direction_the_iq_wealth/)

posted at November 22, 2022 11:52 AM by u/NaiveDeontologist

27 comments archive.ph

82

NSFW Longtermism, or How to Get-Out-Of-Caring While Feeling Moral and Smart (https://www.pestemag.com/books-before-you-die-or-after/longtermism-or-how-to-get-out-of-caring-while-feeling-moral-and-smart-s52gf-6tzmf)

posted at November 22, 2022 03:02 AM by u/Epistaxis

19 comments archive.ph

68

Big Yud on catgirls (https://i.imgur.com/ropRaCm.jpg)

posted at November 21, 2022 11:43 PM by u/thetrombonist

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154

ITT we find the crypto billionaire with a penthouse in the Bahamas was only pretending to have morals (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy)

posted at November 16, 2022 08:59 PM by u/jaherafi

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57

Crossover time (https://i.redd.it/4w5785a9m60a1.png)

posted at November 15, 2022 09:22 PM by u/IIoWoII

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83

I met an LWer yesterday (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/yvthm3/i_met_an_lwer_yesterday/)

posted at November 15, 2022 10:40 AM by u/fusion_curious

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the EAs picked a hell of a week to launch their own magazine (https://asteriskmag.com/)

posted at November 15, 2022 08:11 AM by u/status_maximizer

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122

Scott Alexander solves getting scammed with prediction markets on friendship: (https://i.redd.it/mfrc1x3ojxz91.jpg)

posted at November 14, 2022 02:51 PM by u/textlossarcade

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NSFW It Could Happen Here did an episode on EA (with some material on longtermism). (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-effective-altruism-scam-104557455/)

posted at November 14, 2022 02:23 PM by u/Citrakayah

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83

Scott is taking the FTX thing well (https://mobile.twitter.com/jonbernhardt/status/1591998535758942209?cxt=HHwWgsDU7fiO9ZcsAAAA)

posted at November 14, 2022 02:20 PM by u/embracebecoming

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25

FTX’s Collapse Casts a Pall on a Philanthropy Movement (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/business/ftx-effective-altruism.html)

posted at November 14, 2022 03:23 AM by u/muchcharles

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Alameda CEO turns out to be HBD enjoyer (https://twitter.com/excedrinenjoyer/status/1591608620348997632)

posted at November 14, 2022 02:55 AM by u/brokenAmmonite

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