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shocked, shocked at all these racists (awful.systems)
submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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amazing how much shittier it is to be in the rat community now that the racists won. before at least they were kinda coy about it and pretended to still have remotely good values instead of it all being yarvinslop.

invertebrateinvert

it would be nice to be able to ever invite rat friends to anything but half the time when I've done this in the last year they try selling people they just met on scientific racism!

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago

source: a reblog of the original

first time i spoke to a rationalist about the AI doom thing in 2010, he tried to sell me on scientific racism

yudkowsky was making posts literally of race scientist talking points in 2007

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Close,
You should have tried a "person capable of rational, coherent thought", instead of a rational-ist.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago

We are talking about the subculture here.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Oh, I just realised!
Does "rat" refer to "rationalist"?

I thought it was referring to Lemmy because of the rat symbol.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago

It does, I dont like it personally because of the whole dont compare people you do not like to vermin bit. But it is also a commonly used thing inside the Rationalists community. (I personally also like to capitalize Rationalist when im talking about the lesswrong etc people to make it clear im not talking about normal rationalism).

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Now I feel like I need to read up on all terms in the sidebar before continuing further.

Either way, I'd most probably still stand on my point of not defining a person by the community they relate to and not defining a community by some people that you interact with from said community.
*-ism and *-ist haven't been doing much good for a long time now.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

not defining a person by the community they relate to

u wot m8? they're hanging out with active racists recruiting people to racism and their response is to stop taking those guys to parties? you fuckin bet i'm gonna judge them by relating to that community

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

Scientific racism doesn't exist.

Racism is unscientific, it is purely emotional and not based on reality or statistics if you dig deep enough.

You can call it scientific-sounding racism though.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

I mean yes you are right but “scientific racism” and “race science” etc. are real phrases that are useful to describe and discuss particular racist ideas.

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AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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