\> writing and clear thinking about things that matter
\> inaugural issue includes an "Is Wine Fake" article
I promise you, this is not a question that matters to anyone at all.
It's his case study for "is public health real":
>Wine is not fake. Wine experts aren't fake either, but they believe some strange things, are far from infallible, and need challenges and blinded trials to be kept honest. How far beyond wine you want to apply this is left as an exercise for the reader.
Dog whistle writing, somepeople read that and go 'interesting article in how wine works and winenexperts work' and others more familiar with scotts work go 'see and that is why the experts on healthcare/group IQ are not trustworthy'.
Unrelated joke:
> People could tell the difference between wines under £5 and those above £10 only 53% of the time for whites and only 47% of the time for reds.
Wow white people and esp commies really suck at wine tasting.
I mean, it matters if you're a status-obsessed nerd looking for any straw to grasp that proves that you're on the top of the totem pole.
(but also, you're idea of "high status" is based on pop culture tropes from previous decades.)
Read Scott’s piece and the fiction piece. Both are essentially
meaningless and would have done just as well not to have been written at
all.
Scott’s piece is simply rehashing of what has already been covered
numerous times before, more concisely, in various publications.
The fiction I find most egregious, the author manages to construct an
interesting, albeit not entirely original, idea: what might the wider
ramifications of humanity developing gene editing techniques that allow
for the placation of complex mammals and allowing, through the weakening
of market regulation, private companies to hold the keys to such
technology?
Unfortunately they don’t draw any interesting conclusions from this
idea, which they barely even touch upon, and the prose is unengaging. I
wonder if this is indicative of the quality of EA fiction on the whole?
I suppose when your whole shtick is pandering to a crowd that believes
that AGI is the only true evil anything that might eclipse that as an
existential threat is going to be downplayed.
A short story that might be interesting to sneerclubbers is "[Story of Emily and Control](https://www.gwern.net/docs/fiction/2011-yvain-thestoryofemilyandcontrol.html)".
The best EA/Rationalist fiction is mostly not didactic or controversial. I think that most sneerclubbers who have looked have mostly tried to find stories about the controversial ideas of EAs/rationalists like AI risk and acausal decision theory, and there's probably no good EA/rationalist fiction about those.
IMO most good EA/rationalist fiction is not even distinctive enough to be obviously EA/rationalist like the short story about a secular utopia [Utopia, LOL?](http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/utopia-lol/)
IMO the best at-all-controversial rationalist fiction is shortish story about alien contact [Three Worlds Collide](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n5TqCuizyJDfAPjkr/the-baby-eating-aliens-1-8) (it's so barely controversial most people might not think it's controversial at all)
Rationalist-promoted stories like [HPMOR](http://www.hpmor.com/) are promoted because they are extremely didactic, but are probably only entertaining if you are into power fantasies or already have rationalist inclinations before reading.
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brb making a cult around Pythagoras’ theorem
How banal.
Read Scott’s piece and the fiction piece. Both are essentially meaningless and would have done just as well not to have been written at all.
Scott’s piece is simply rehashing of what has already been covered numerous times before, more concisely, in various publications.
The fiction I find most egregious, the author manages to construct an interesting, albeit not entirely original, idea: what might the wider ramifications of humanity developing gene editing techniques that allow for the placation of complex mammals and allowing, through the weakening of market regulation, private companies to hold the keys to such technology?
Unfortunately they don’t draw any interesting conclusions from this idea, which they barely even touch upon, and the prose is unengaging. I wonder if this is indicative of the quality of EA fiction on the whole? I suppose when your whole shtick is pandering to a crowd that believes that AGI is the only true evil anything that might eclipse that as an existential threat is going to be downplayed.