Hereticon! Crank Magnetism, the conference. Everything about this is awesome. Funded by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Features several rationalist and IDW favourites.

u/TheStephen 32 points at 1642723371.000000

Aella and Laci Green collaborating, good lord Laci has fallen farther than I thought (last checked in with her in like, 2017).

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u/finfinfin 29 points at 1642752902.000000

/u/dgerard getting slow and reposting old sneers. he’ll be thinking bitcoin is good in a few months.

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u/dgerard 12 points at 1642950544.000000

a store of inflation *and* a hedge against value

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u/DELETED 17 points at 1642749441.000000

Someone please tell me “you’re probably a eugenicist” isn’t what I think it is.

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u/Soyweiser 12 points at 1642786545.000000

Yes, it is using the reverse [noncentral fallacy](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncentral-fallacy-the-worst-argument-in-the-world) to go 'well if you think about it 'edge case about genes' is actually eugenics, therefore we are judging the word eugenics too harshly. Probably at least, I am a bit biased here, and without being there an listening to the talk I can't make a proper judgment of course. I would think this has a high chance of being true on the betting market however. ;). We will have to see, I assume they will post it all on youtube. E: via her twitter: https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1440776042080202771

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u/DELETED -17 points at 1642756142.000000

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u/Soyweiser 21 points at 1642758602.000000

'wrongthoughts' let me guess you come from themotte.

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u/DELETED -14 points at 1642774801.000000

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u/Soyweiser 24 points at 1642785921.000000

Thanks

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u/magithrop 8 points at 1642873598.000000

haha you got nailed

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u/JohnPaulJonesSoda 20 points at 1642783968.000000

wrongthoughts like - wow these questions are stupid and Twitter polls have got to be one of the worst ways to try to make any kind of point?

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u/blakestaceyprime 13 points at 1642818521.000000

> A country offers $5000 to any woman who reproduces, if she scores in the top 10% of a set of (carefully designed, reliable) tests meant to judge general intelligence. This is: poll was missing options for "bizarre assumption of facts not in evidence, i.e., that 'general intelligence' is quantifiable" and "some fuckin' bullshit"

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u/embracebecoming 7 points at 1642962755.000000

I mean, og eugenics was also based on bullshit pseudoscience so I don't think that objection disqualifies that policy from falling under the "eugenics I don't support" option

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u/codemuncher 15 points at 1642759798.000000

Wrong thoughts. - dumb.

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u/sexylaboratories 13 points at 1642753608.000000

previous thread on this here

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u/blakestaceyprime 17 points at 1642828728.000000

the past is a foreign country; they sneer differently there

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u/sexylaboratories 13 points at 1642842654.000000

"How far my efforts agree with those of other sneerers I will not decide. Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have sneered has already been sneered before me by another."

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u/tgji 13 points at 1642727991.000000

Man what a loser you have to be to go to this.

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u/Kiss_Me_Im_Rational 5 points at 1642893918.000000

are you serious? I wish I could go to this lmao

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u/wstewartXYZ 3 points at 1642981312.000000

Yeah this sounds hilarious, especially the UFO stuff.

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u/silentbassline 6 points at 1642798799.000000

Thanks for reminding me of the term crank magnetism, I was trying to search for it recently but only found bullshit about magnets. On the plus side my Qi is in perfect balance right now.

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u/blakestaceyprime 7 points at 1642829038.000000

Being reminded of the term *crank magnetism* suddenly makes me wonder about the possibility of a *crank magnetic monopole,* which I guess would be a person or topic that has not yet been observed in the wild, but which hypothetically embodies a kind of crackpottery that would fit nicely into a general scheme.

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u/DELETED 5 points at 1642730670.000000

TRYST: Burlesque & Cirque Show?

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u/NotAFinnishLawyer 5 points at 1642799193.000000

Must a human be an ape

Why wouldn’t humans be apes? Or is it because it makes those people feel bad for some reason. Are rationalists creationist now?

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u/sexylaboratories 5 points at 1642884054.000000

I'm guessing it's some upload your mind trans-humanism thing.

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u/NotAFinnishLawyer 5 points at 1642884375.000000

Steve Fuller is apparently an intelligent design proponent, and testified for it in the Kitzmiller trial. He seems to be a real creationist deal.

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u/blakestaceyprime 6 points at 1642885349.000000

I haven't read anything by Fuller in ~10 years, but my recollection is that he *is* what STEM-bros think "postmodernists" are. The caricature made flesh. "What if it's, you know, all *relative,* man?" (but with more syllables). So, being willing to trash any possibility of a distinction between science and nonscience, of course he's willing to grant creationism legitimacy.

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u/NotAFinnishLawyer 3 points at 1642885668.000000

To be fair humans have to be apes only if we want taxonomy to make sense. It is all relative, even. Whoa.

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u/jon_hendry 3 points at 1642928457.000000

That's two intelligent design proponents, then. They also had a guy with Questions about whale evolution

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u/magithrop 5 points at 1642873730.000000

COVID Vaccines…Bret Weinstein

Yikes. Where’s the seminar on making your own death cult?

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u/jon_hendry 3 points at 1642928192.000000

Jesus Christ, Intelligent Design? ESP?

What is this, an issue of OMNI Magazine?

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