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While this linear model's overall predictive accuracy barely outperformed random guessing,

I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.

the rest of the site is a stupendous assortment of a very small field of focus that made this ideal for sneerclub and not just techtakes

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this is very self-serving ass covering from the rationalist sphere

there's a glaring hole in it: what precisely the break was between Ziz and her friends and the rest of the rationals. this isn't detailed.

xcancel: https://xcancel.com/aella_girl/status/1884481375690223684

aella's document dump: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1z21U_q1tESO61iL35ertsIjZYczJrHpQ

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 40 points 3 months ago

greatest point against him being a rationalist is the 262 word manifesto, it would be 20,000 words with sections numbered I. II. III. and possibly diagrams

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 36 points 5 months ago

"There was a post, [pause], I forget who wrote it" <- the kind of thing I have said several times attempting to avoid leaking rationalist-evidence-bits.

gotta keep that power level under wraps

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Keep in mind that, for theologically conservative (“the Bible is historically and spiritually accurate”) Christians like myself,

rationalists whoo

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

comment:

I was at Manifest as a volunteer, and I also saw much of the same behaviour as you. If I had known scientific racism or eugenics were acceptable topics of conversation there, I wouldn’t have gone. I’m increasingly glad I decided not to organise a talk.

EA needs to recognise that even associating with scientific racists and eugenicists turns away many of the kinds of bright, kind, ambitious people the movement needs. I am exhausted at having to tell people I am an EA ‘but not one of those ones’. If the movement truly values diversity of views, we should value the people we’re turning away just as much.

my brother in the Acausal Robot God, I have some unfortunate news about what your fellow EAs have espoused for the past twenty years.

Austin from Manifest responds that leftist views would obviously much more damaging to EA than racist ones, because reasons.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 10 months ago

and yet you signed up to Awful Systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 80 points 10 months ago

Every article on pronatalism in the past few years has been these two Thiel-sponsored white nationalist dweebs and nobody else. Why the fuck does the Guardian fall for this shit too.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 33 points 11 months ago

I have written about Balaji's amazing brain previously. Wait till you get to the PiTato. He's one of the VCs who was super scared by GPT-3, I think because you could replace his twitter with an LLM and the quality would go up.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 42 points 1 year ago

tired: polyamory on a basis of mutual love
wired: neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 53 points 1 year ago

Catholics, well known for their low fertility

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 33 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the abyss! Here's your hazmat suit with a leak! It sucks here!

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 58 points 1 year ago

always love* it when these guys get so race scientist they start on different groups of white people

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 1 year ago

and - a key point - his prospective tradwaifus don't want him

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