[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago

standard

non consensual

Not sure we can combine that.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago

Satanic pick-up artist

Oh my...

My mind went to pickup stuff more, had not thought of the sex magic angle, but makes total sense. Esp combining the two.

his e-book

If you ever borrow some of these books from people, like Anna for example, it is amazing how badly written they are.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Quantum mentioned, drink!

(No really dont forget to drink water and take any meds you need people).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 17 hours ago

We could setup a small new micro nation and route all the drone traffic through that to make sure nobody does any murder crimes. Easily crowdsourced, esp after the billionaires are no longer bidding.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

prove they represent an actual human who’s behind any request

This seems like he is misunderstanding the problem, we know people are behind the spam. That doesnt make the spam ok. Another one of those none solutions by blockchain tech.

This would just create a secondary market for peoples IDs. Like people being paid pennies to do captchas all day.

I also worry about the expenses of all this, an additional layer of blockchain bullshit on top of everything is going to cost a lot of time and money. Going to eat into the margins of things fast, esp if energy prices rise cause nobody wants to invoke the 25th amendment.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The article’s entire premise is Musk saying some random shit. Remember how Musk said that he would land a man on Mars in 10 years 13 years ago?

This isnt the only thing, the man made so many promises that were lies, or didnt work out it is almost amazing people give him the benefit of the doubt. But people have to or the economy might crash (which seems more and more inevitable now, as a fantasist related crash cant be avoided (and it is worse, if you have seen Andreessen latest weird interview it is clear Trump and Musk are not the only mental voids with a lot of money, so they might be all like that)).

The Blindsight vampires are here already.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

If this is the real reason:

It's because, for a long time, most of their content was behind a signup wall with no obvious workaround. I don't know if it still is or not. If it isn't, we can change it.

It is baffling that this isn't communicated upfront to the users. Really weird move orange site.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

That is annoying. But thanks.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Aren't they all ran by the same people? To be clear I also tried some of the archive variants.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

"Our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."

These are two different things. But I fear he doesn't get that.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Anybody else having problems with archive.is and its variants? I keep getting into an infinite captcha loop. I already tried making it an dns over https exception in firefox, which worked once.

E: tried a different browser, and same problem. Same on phone, it does work going from wifi to mobile however.

E2: I seem to have fixed it, by oddly rebooting my router. Which makes no sense to me.

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Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 73 points 1 year ago

We will have a manned mission to mars within two years! Full self driving this year! This will bank the unbanked! Wait, sorry different guys. ;)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

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Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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