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Why is there so much yudkowsky hate on this subreddit?

Gentleman, you can’t sneer here! This is the sneer club!

Of course, the whole point of Roko's Basilisk is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world?!
I'm starting a crowdfund for a Times Square billboard *this very instant*.
As you know, the Yud loves surprises.
It would not be necessary to decide who lives and who dies, it could easily be accomplished with a computer. The computer could be set, programmed, to accept factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our most rational bloggers be included.

This is sort of like going to r/enoughpetersonspam and asking why they keep talking about Jordan Peterson

It’s possible that some people, perhaps OP, are only familiar with SSC and aren’t aware of its history coming out of LW etc. So they might get the impression this sub is only for SSC sneers and be confused by the Hanson and Yudkowsky sneers.
This is like discovering that children born after 2000 can now drive, except can now have awful, reductive views about things in general.

This post exempifies the problem with yudkowsky:

He thinks being a arrogant dipshit is justified by being intelligent, except that in actuality he doesn’t know what the fuck hes talking about. It is really bad that a movement named “rationalism” was founded by an irrational crackpot.

>This post exempifies the problem with yudkowsky: There's one guy in the comments asking the right questions: > What kind of dinner party was this? It's great to expose non-rigorous beliefs, but was that the right place to show off your superiority? It seems you came off as having some inferiority complex, though obviously I wasn't there. I know that if I'm at a party (of most types), for example, my first goal ain't exactly to win philosophical arguments ...

…bitch where you when i was was walkin?

Now I run the game got the whole world talkin'
Mornington Crescent!

What’s there to like?

His name is an anagram for ZU, YE SWORDLIKE KEY. I think that's it.
That's his only positive trait, though?
awaiting his Kingdom Hearts rationalfic with bated breath

it’s because he’s a nerd. we’re all anti-nerd racists over here.

Confessing that I like *Dune* now includes an anticipatory cringe at who might agree.
*Dune* is just the Qu'ran for nerds.
Just act all gatekeepey about how actually it's psychedelic lit and the scifi nerds need to GTFO.

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