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Let us all remember the time members of the Less Wrong community responded to a member being hounded to death by the justice system by blaming bluepill ideology for warping his mind (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLzGnMcbhBQmu4txA/link-noam-chomsky-killed-aaron-schwartz)
posted at January 12, 2020 05:36 PM by u/Myrdradek
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In which media centrism is conflated with objectivity and is framed as an unquestioned good. This stuff is Scott-lite. (https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/sick-giant.html?utm_source=Main+List&utm_campaign=cad72dbe72-EMAIL-STORY-CH10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5b568bad0b-cad72dbe72-51465173&mc_cid=cad72dbe72&mc_eid=a26f3aac07)
posted at January 09, 2020 10:07 PM by u/SaiyanPrinceAbubu
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"You imply that a person spending millions to extend their life is morally decrepit ... but not the poor collectively spending trillions on non-utilitarian things? It's non-obvious to me that the factor relevant to moral blame... is the absolute amount rather than the percentage of money one spends" (https://np.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/ejmmsh/effective_altruist_longtermism_and_its_deep/fdclmmc/)
posted at January 06, 2020 10:44 PM by u/foobanana
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/r/themotte performs in-depth analysis of climate change and comes to the sophisticated conclusion of “lol too hard to stop” (https://reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/e5likp/climate_tipping_points_too_risky_to_bet_against/)
posted at January 06, 2020 01:31 AM by u/74538
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What's the best way for Effective Altruists to allocate grant money? Purchasing malaria nets? Direct giving? No, of course not. It's buying $28k worth of copies of HPMOR (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CJJDwgyqT4gXktq6g/long-term-future-fund-april-2019-grant-recommendations)
posted at January 05, 2020 11:44 AM by u/sue_me_please
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"Centrists like myself view progressivism and nazism as being two forms of the same pathology, so being staunchly anti-genocide means you are anti-progressive." (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/eeg1xx/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_december_23/fc8ol0u/)
posted at December 29, 2019 04:40 PM by u/Hailanathema
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"Frankly, whenever I see anti-homeless boulders or spikes I think, 'good'. We should not be going out of our way to make it comfortable to be homeless," the hacker writes. "I would know, I went to a pretty well regarded private high school in California." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900680#21901306)
posted at December 29, 2019 07:00 AM by u/sue_me_please
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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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Thinkateria delivers more piping hot thought food (https://thethinkateria.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/the-heart-is-a-rational-thing/)
posted at December 27, 2019 10:57 PM by u/Snugglerific
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Hacker News shows its usual sympathy for poor people (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21888821)
posted at December 27, 2019 05:23 AM by u/zhezhijian
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tackling evolution's greatest mystery: why does butt stuff feel good? the answer may surprise you! (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/edj83c/tackling_evolutions_greatest_mystery_why_does/)
posted at December 21, 2019 01:23 AM by u/bungholebandit69
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Scott Alexander wonders why nobody writes good plays anymore (https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/slatestarscratchpad/189750082296)
posted at December 20, 2019 04:41 PM by u/zhezhijian
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TheMotte joins the "TERF IS A SLUR" crowd (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ebaopf/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_december_16/fbeevus/)
posted at December 19, 2019 07:51 PM by u/Hailanathema
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Honestly extremely peculiar of you to want to keep out fascists (https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/ecgswi/meta_if_we_want_to_address_the_troll_problem_on/fbc725l/)
posted at December 19, 2019 06:12 PM by u/DaveyJF
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shouldn't it just be called the endarkenment (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ec68oa/shouldnt_it_just_be_called_the_endarkenment/)
posted at December 18, 2019 02:24 AM by u/brokenAmmonite
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The hackers lament the existence of free public transport because "sharing close quarters with aggressive, smelly, intoxicated, unstable people is stressful and unpleasant" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21807602)
posted at December 17, 2019 04:45 AM by u/sue_me_please
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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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Latest proposal from the Bay Area rationalist community (/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/ea4b2y/a_political_system_in_which_programmers_code/)
posted at December 14, 2019 01:01 AM by u/midnightrambulador
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NSFW Most sane people don’t want to die, but why would anyone want to live in this crappy world forever? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/ea3e29/most_sane_people_dont_want_to_die_but_why_would/)
posted at December 13, 2019 12:29 PM by u/ttha_face
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Robin Hanson has a stopped clock moment on automation. (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/12/automation-so-far-business-as-usual.html)
posted at December 12, 2019 03:16 PM by u/Shaun_the_Sheeple
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In which someone on r/cscareerquestions derides therapy and recommends SSC instead (https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/e991g0/hit_a_deadend_software_engineering_just_isnt_fun/fahu5ni/?context=2)
posted at December 11, 2019 09:36 PM by u/JohnWColtrane
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“being a successful Nazi required a great deal of initiative and out-of-the-box thinking... [gas chambers were] not the result of top-down planning. It was the result of the Nazis cultivating multiple Jew-killing startups... In many ways Nazism represented rebellion against authority.” (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/e85hvr/_/faf93pf/?context=1)
posted at December 11, 2019 05:59 AM by u/yemwez
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thought this belonged here (https://twitter.com/neoliberal_dad/status/1203729239528345601)
posted at December 09, 2019 07:07 PM by u/status_maximizer
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"So I imagine the trigger for depression simply checks whether there is anybody to safely bully." (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/e7tlo8/so_i_imagine_the_trigger_for_depression_simply/)
posted at December 08, 2019 01:17 PM by u/Epistemophilliac
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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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