There’s a lot of sneerious people in the world, but this subreddit isn’t a general outrage factory for every terrible person who cloaks their badness in a veneer of intellectualism. We have a narrower focus.
The core group consists of LessWrong, its offshoots, and their members. Sneers at these are always on topic.
Expanding outward there the rationalist-adjacents: figures like Peter Thiel, Scott Aaronson, stuff like effective altruism. Sneers here aren’t always on topic; they either should be about a rationalist-y thing or really funny/high quality.
Stepping out even further there’s general tech shitheads, IDW people, and so on. These are almost certainly not on topic. Stop fucking posting so many things about Sam Harris, bitcoin, and other unrelated people/things.
/r/techtakes
it’s so annoying when Eric Weinstein finally tweeted his physics revelation and it was sub-Lindsay
pretty much anyone that says “Straussian” lol
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I kinda don’t get this sub. The description makes it seem like you recognize that sneering at people is a bad thing that people with serious problems relating to others in an empathetic way do, yet that’s the purpose of the sub.
Sneering seems thoroughly mean-spirited. It’s bullying. It’s hateful. It doesn’t actually put forward anything productive.
But that’s obvious. We both already know that.
So why do it? Especially if you realize this?
Are you folks Ok?
You know, just because you’ve done bad things in the past that doesn’t mean you have to define yourself as a bad person. You can say what you want to say and do what you want to do. You’re not powerless.
I’m sorry that you feel you have to do this. That this is what’s expected of you. That this is where you belong.
It seems like it really, really sucks.
I’m guessing you had some really bad experiences surrounding this stuff. I know I did.
It’s hard.
hp and worm fanfic still counts right
Is Bostrom in group 2, or 1?
Because LessWrong is normally marginal enough that I only notice them here, but Bostrom is a public intellectual. And while I don’t think he’s part of LessWrong, and he seems to focus less on rationalism, his ideas regarding X-risk, AI, et cetera are in the same ballpark.
I’m looking for a sub dedicated entirely to dunking on James Lindsay. Does such a sub exist? What’s the closest alternative?
Put this in your sidebar. You made me waste all of 30 seconds this morning. I could have exercised for twice as long.
There’s /r/EnoughIDWspam and /r/EnoughSamHarrisSpam BTW for some of these people.
I’ll post what I want. Fucking fight me CI
Is forming a sneer club to sneer at the sneerers the best idea?