r/SneerClub archives

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What Is It About Peter Thiel? The billionaire venture capitalist has fans and followers. What are they looking for? (https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/what-is-it-about-peter-thiel)

posted at October 27, 2021 03:16 PM by u/Epistaxis

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Professor Primal Poly shares one simple dating tip (https://i.redd.it/m66tkuoh0zv71.png)

posted at October 27, 2021 10:33 AM by u/DELETED

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NSFW "longtermism, as proposed by Bostrom [...] is not equivalent to ‘caring about the long term’ or ‘valuing the wellbeing of future generations’" (https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo)

posted at October 26, 2021 07:14 PM by u/ProfColdheart

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55

Turns out Paul was right, EA needs idea people to help spend their 45 billion dollars. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/qew0bk/turns_out_paul_was_right_ea_needs_idea_people_to/)

posted at October 24, 2021 04:50 PM by u/Soyweiser

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23

New Paul Graham Essay Dropped (http://paulgraham.com/smart.html)

posted at October 21, 2021 09:46 PM by u/slowcookedfrog

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21

Don't know if this fits here, but I have to ask, who is 'ziz'? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/qcy4fz/dont_know_if_this_fits_here_but_i_have_to_ask_who/)

posted at October 21, 2021 06:26 PM by u/ImperialFister04

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56

more cultishness: Zizianism, masked attackers in the woods, Roko's Vegan Basilisk... (http://zizians.info/)

posted at October 21, 2021 02:33 PM by u/mtraven

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Scott Alexander doesn’t seem to believe cults are possible (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experience-at-and-around-miri-and-cfar-inspired-by-zoe?commentId=Et2mkTMjWNmsnpNxd)

posted at October 20, 2021 11:45 PM by u/textlossarcade

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65

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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Some sneerable internal sneer, or how (not) to become Elon Musk (https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1450175267909947395)

posted at October 19, 2021 12:30 AM by u/shinigami3

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Former MIRI employee exposes the inner workings of the MIRI/CFAR cult (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experience-at-and-around-miri-and-cfar-inspired-by-zoe)

posted at October 17, 2021 05:36 PM by u/LwIsAcult

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268

got em (https://i.redd.it/karrwrla4xt71.png)

posted at October 17, 2021 02:02 AM by u/Epistaxis

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"Think about the phrase "fully automated luxury Communism" in the context of "speedrunning" and I strongly suspect that things will start to 'click' in your mind." (https://mobile.twitter.com/bronzeswords/status/1449345260207828995)

posted at October 16, 2021 07:43 PM by u/ViolatingBadgers

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NSFW First-Hand Account of the Leverage Cult (https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b)

posted at October 13, 2021 10:27 PM by u/deluks917_

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Hanson **and his lineage** now have some real skin in the game re: ems vs agi (https://i.redd.it/3focuzzlhjs71.jpg)

posted at October 10, 2021 03:08 AM by u/textlossarcade

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49

Center for Undermining Rationality (CFUR) (https://twitter.com/Alephwyr/status/1446674820960174084)

posted at October 09, 2021 06:20 AM by u/mtraven

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Over in SSC: “What's the answer to Scott's steelman of reactionary's corporal punishment section?” (https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/q3v6s9/whats_the_answer_to_scotts_steelman_of/)

posted at October 09, 2021 12:42 AM by u/textlossarcade

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164

primalpoly wants your opinion on permission to use word (first letter unspecified) (https://i.redd.it/0rul9k4xf5s71.jpg)

posted at October 08, 2021 03:53 AM by u/textlossarcade

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189

Wisdom from Scott Siskind (https://i.redd.it/ghgwqw1vd4s71.jpg)

posted at October 08, 2021 12:20 AM by u/completely-ineffable

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"Capitalism is still not capitalist enough...We need double-capitalism - no, fifty capitalisms!" (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/q1izwh/capitalism_is_still_not_capitalist_enoughwe_need/)

posted at October 05, 2021 12:13 AM by u/sverlook

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Eliezer’s insights into philosophy of economics: coming soon (https://i.redd.it/ukp2n4uavhr71.jpg)

posted at October 04, 2021 08:37 PM by u/textlossarcade

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39

Leave HPMOR alone!!! (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1443732248377770015)

posted at October 02, 2021 08:15 PM by u/DELETED

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NSFW "(Pinker admits as much when he advocates for those of the 'Rationality Community,' for whose membership he refers readers, in a footnote, to a 2017 blog post on lesswrong.com.)" (https://slate.com/culture/2021/09/steven-pinker-rationality-book-review.html)

posted at September 30, 2021 08:30 PM by u/Snugglerific

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...Yud really wants to be this visitor to Cheliax, huh? (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1442853674254962689)

posted at September 30, 2021 05:40 PM by u/shinigami3

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From LW: "A review of Steven Pinker's new book on rationality" (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zQKgKjecvR4W7oJw5/a-review-of-steven-pinker-s-new-book-on-rationality)

posted at September 30, 2021 03:24 PM by u/TheStephen

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