r/SneerClub archives

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Steven Pinker blocks half of twitter (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ii5b7i/steven_pinker_blocks_half_of_twitter/)

posted at August 28, 2020 11:24 AM by u/as-well

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NSFW Is there any community that actually is what the so-called rationalists (cl)aim to be? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ii2wuv/is_there_any_community_that_actually_is_what_the/)

posted at August 28, 2020 07:45 AM by u/Endotroph

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Online discussion norms and "bad faith" (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ihowxf/online_discussion_norms_and_bad_faith/)

posted at August 27, 2020 05:05 PM by u/DELETED

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"If you opt for soft sciences, what you are really telling to your fellow citizens is: "I don't give a s**t if you need goods and services." (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ifiyso/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_august_24_2020/g308ag2/)

posted at August 27, 2020 11:24 AM by u/Edmund-Nelson

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"Fewer things in life feel more glorious than sliding your Motte into a new girl’s tight, luscious, unplundered Bailey [...] On the flipside, girls are unlikely to satisfy your “rationalist”-sphere and/or abstract philiosophical indulgences." (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/iexnnx/smallscale_question_sunday_for_the_week_of_august/g2nbjx8/)

posted at August 24, 2020 01:05 PM by u/bort_med_romanska

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Yud Says "Make Arithmetic Great Again" (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1297088613969059840)

posted at August 22, 2020 10:57 PM by u/aponty

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13% of Yudkowsky tweets are now racist dogwhistling (https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1297011322123464712)

posted at August 22, 2020 10:35 PM by u/LwIsAcult

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Sigh, I wish desperate people would stop foiling my plans to pay them nothing by being destitute (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24227669)

posted at August 20, 2020 08:40 PM by u/sue_me_please

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"What if COVID-19 was engineered by China to mitigate global warming" (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ib82ju/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_august_17_2020/g280kxp/)

posted at August 20, 2020 04:13 PM by u/Hailanathema

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Orange website finally figures out how arbitrary and unjust policing works. Can you guess what example clued them in before you click the link? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191338)

posted at August 19, 2020 01:21 PM by u/kwykwy

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Ten paragraphs of whining because YouTube recommends them videos from black people (https://reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ib82ju/_/g1zzf28/?context=1)

posted at August 19, 2020 01:29 AM by u/74538

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I honestly don't understand what's in it for Yud to defend billionaires (https://mobile.twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1295144436196716545)

posted at August 18, 2020 12:29 PM by u/youthr

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/r/themotte poster and Scott Alexander completely misunderstand conflict theory and jerk themselves to how “stupid” it is (https://reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ib82ju/_/g1y14va/?context=1)

posted at August 18, 2020 09:06 AM by u/74538

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my genetics textbook was written by a "race realist" that thinks women are inferior send help (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ibnbg1/my_genetics_textbook_was_written_by_a_race/)

posted at August 17, 2020 09:26 PM by u/Academic_Jellyfish

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Can GPT-3 pass the Turing Test? probably not, but it can easily fool Hacker News. (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/16/21371049/gpt3-hacker-news-ai-blog)

posted at August 16, 2020 10:24 PM by u/SlavojVivec

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"Teaching kids how to play music is mostly a huge waste" by our favourite GMU economist (https://mobile.twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1294258634558525440)

posted at August 15, 2020 09:54 PM by u/kikukan

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/r/themotte poster literally asks if the means justify the end, as if it’s a new concept or debate topic (https://reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/i6yuis/_/g18g2rs/?context=1)

posted at August 15, 2020 04:11 PM by u/74538

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Writing Prompt: GPT4!Yud solves the alignment problem by virtue of being a GPT4 simulation of BIG YUD HIMSELF (https://np.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/i9jfqd/writing_prompt_eliezer_yudkowsky_uses_gpt4_to/)

posted at August 14, 2020 07:28 PM by u/aponty

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See Comments for More Sneers! I think it is evil that predominately Jewish newspapers and groups are slandering non-Jewish Whites with claims of institutional power. (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/i6yuis/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_august_10_2020/g1clc77/)

posted at August 14, 2020 03:56 AM by u/PmMeClassicMemes

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LessWronger reinvents logical positivism for the 100th time (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PSichw8wqmbood6fj/this-territory-does-not-exist)

posted at August 13, 2020 01:31 AM by u/LwIsAcult

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A question about our future robot overlords. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/i7rezf/a_question_about_our_future_robot_overlords/)

posted at August 11, 2020 01:03 PM by u/Cthulhooo

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NSFW "tech brain is a sort of constant willful reductionism: an addiction to easy answers combined with a wholesale cultural resistance to any kind of complexity." (https://pycnocline.substack.com/p/tech-brain)

posted at August 10, 2020 06:07 PM by u/ProfColdheart

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tangential, but it's fun to see how badly the scary AI image generator copes when asked to handle both horses and humans. Reload a few times (https://thishorsedoesnotexist.com/)

posted at August 09, 2020 11:44 AM by u/dgerard

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The wealth gap is actually decreasing because some poor people have access to vehicles (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hwzsyr/is_the_gap_between_rich_and_poor_getting_smaller/fzibz4y/)

posted at August 09, 2020 03:44 AM by u/sue_me_please

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Aella drops such a bad take it makes it to the front page (https://i.redd.it/eamosd36dof51.jpg)

posted at August 08, 2020 08:18 AM by u/vsbobclear

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