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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

bayesian epistemology for sure

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 1 week 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 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

rationalists whoo

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In a letter to the judge, Ellison’s mother, professor Sara Fisher Ellison, wrote that Ellison has completed a romantic novella and is already at work on a follow-up. The finished novella is “set in Edwardian England and loosely based on [Ellison’s] sister Kate’s imagined amorous exploits, to Kate’s great delight,” her mother wrote.

https://fortune.com/2024/09/24/caroline-ellison-romance-novel-ftx-entencing/

oh yeah she got two years' jail for her part in stealing eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 5 months ago

and yet you signed up to Awful Systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 80 points 5 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 6 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 7 months ago

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

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 53 points 7 months ago

Catholics, well known for their low fertility

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 33 points 7 months ago

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

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 58 points 7 months ago

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

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 7 months ago

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

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