r/SneerClub archives

38

A rationalist in his own logorrhea (https://twitter.com/cix_eria/status/1202666145624408069)

posted at December 05, 2019 08:40 PM by u/zhezhijian

55

"the problem with Bayes is the Bayesians. It’s the whole religion thing, the people who say that Bayesian reasoning is just rational thinking, or that rational thinking is necessarily Bayesian" - doesn't name our friends, but you know who he means (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/03/whats-wrong-with-bayes/)

posted at December 04, 2019 07:33 PM by u/dgerard

23 comments archive.ph

20

Hacker News talks about gender and hiring. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694348)

posted at December 04, 2019 07:22 AM by u/Sag0Sag0

4 comments archive.ph

94

2 hour video from Shaun debunking the Bell Curve (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo)

posted at December 04, 2019 03:32 AM by u/brokenAmmonite

41 comments archive.ph

56

Virgil Griffith is the cryptocurrency brain genius in the news for teaching North Korea how to evade sanctions, on the blockchain. You'll be unsurprised to hear that he's on topic for sneerclub. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676533)

posted at December 01, 2019 06:54 PM by u/dgerard

44 comments archive.ph

54

Might be slightly out of the SC wheelhouse, but here's Jonathan Haidt's research becoming a victim of the replication crisis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656619301278)

posted at November 28, 2019 03:46 PM by u/zhezhijian

11 comments archive.ph

28

Vox article on the influence of Nick Land's and Moldbug's thoughts on far-right violence. (https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/11/20882005/accelerationism-white-supremacy-christchurch)

posted at November 25, 2019 09:09 PM by u/Swevenham

64 comments archive.ph

67

A little more empathy for slaveowners (that is, the ability to see things from their point of view) would have enabled the US to abolish slavery without the bloody civil war. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21570717)

posted at November 19, 2019 09:05 PM by u/sue_me_please

43 comments archive.ph

43

when you're running seminars on actual evolution, and you accidentally invite Bo Winegard - "once they learned of the direction of his planned talk, they withdrew promotion and advertisement of the event, canceled several meetings ..." (https://cw.ua.edu/56341/news/evolution-working-group-on-hosting-bo-winegard-it-was-our-mistake/)

posted at November 17, 2019 07:19 PM by u/dgerard

10 comments archive.ph

49

High Effort Sneer on Yang by Current Affairs (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/07/andrew-yangs-curious-plans)

posted at November 17, 2019 07:19 AM by u/Hurt_cow

19 comments archive.ph

35

An unsurprising revelation (https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1195594845286305793?s=19)

posted at November 16, 2019 08:15 PM by u/completely-ineffable

16 comments archive.ph

194

Dave Rubin's failed effort to call out AOC (https://imgur.com/pvm09IC)

posted at November 15, 2019 01:12 AM by u/uSeeEsBee

14 comments archive.ph

0

In which a guy talks about emotional labor as if he's some sort of Lifehack genius for discovering it. (https://medium.com/@chrismorgan_1657/i-hired-a-wife-and-my-career-took-off-16dc8ae481fe)

posted at November 10, 2019 08:03 PM by u/starm4nn

13 comments archive.ph

62

Beep boop why should I congratulate my friends on getting married? Many marriages fail and it isn't an accomplishment. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21493228)

posted at November 10, 2019 07:34 PM by u/sue_me_please

22 comments archive.ph

8

@NoContextBoomer dishing out the core truth Rationalists need to hear (https://twitter.com/NoContextBoomer/status/1193215461909028866?s=20)

posted at November 09, 2019 06:54 PM by u/midnightrambulador

1 comments archive.ph

299

What the fuck lmao (https://i.imgur.com/Sk0pgqH.png)

posted at November 09, 2019 04:36 PM by u/ChalkOverdose

39 comments archive.ph

52

BUT WHY DON'T MINORITIES VOTE REPUBLICAN?!?! (https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/drd1uu/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_november_04/f6v2ac7/)

posted at November 08, 2019 08:12 AM by u/Throwaway_sneerer

25 comments archive.ph

72

How much would condescension toward Rationalists fall if they weren't mind-bogglingly racist and sexist? (https://i.redd.it/l3x5391reax31.png)

posted at November 07, 2019 04:03 PM by u/acausalrobotgod

24 comments archive.ph

8

NSFW Warren, the candidate for... LessWrong and transhumanists? (Not a sneer, just posted for fun) (https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1192183028581310464?s=20)

posted at November 07, 2019 07:31 AM by u/penguincascadia

2 comments archive.ph

107

Sometimes it feels like, against all odds, Yud somehow managed to write HPMOR without actually reading it. (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/dsm7pm/sometimes_it_feels_like_against_all_odds_yud/)

posted at November 06, 2019 08:42 PM by u/Wun_Weg_Wun_Dar__Wun

37 comments archive.ph

53

Another Yudkowsky Classic: "I'm having trouble remembering to breathe as I write this... ...If you don't sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent." (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hiDkhLyN5S2MEjrSE/normal-cryonics)

posted at November 06, 2019 09:38 AM by u/Throwaway_sneerer

27 comments archive.ph

62

Yudkowsky classic: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien-message)

posted at November 06, 2019 04:13 AM by u/titotal

46 comments archive.ph

38

Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett agree: Now is the best time to be alive (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/musk-gates-and-buffett-say-now-is-the-best-time-to-be-alive.html)

posted at November 02, 2019 08:40 PM by u/NotWithoutIncident

27 comments archive.ph

63

SA just wrote a history of New Atheism and it's genuinely so bad in so many ways I'm too depressed to sneer at it. (https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/)

posted at November 01, 2019 01:01 PM by u/PMMeYourJerkyRecipes

88 comments archive.ph

21

"Evolution Institute"? (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/dq2u7z/evolution_institute/)

posted at November 01, 2019 11:18 AM by u/mitchellporter

10 comments archive.ph