This piece links to a recent New York Times story about our very good friends, by Cade Metz. Nothing in it will surprise SneerClub regulars too much, including how it ends up giving Yudkowsky too much credit. It says that the Sequences taught critical thinking, when they were cult shit all along; it says that in HPMoR, Harry uses real science, which is balderdash.
(If anyone says "Gell-Mann amnesia" I will fucking cut you.)
That link seems to have broken, but this one currently works:
https://bsky.app/profile/larkshead.bsky.social/post/3lt6ugxre6k2s
On a bulletin board in a grad-student lounge, I once saw a saying thumbtacked up: "One electron is physics. Two electrons is perturbation theory. Three or more electrons, that's chemistry."
PolygenX's Chief Science Officer Steven Wolfram's
(double-take)
I think that should be Tobias Wolfram. Per RationalWiki and Hope Not Hate, anyway.
And via the links at the bottom of that page, we learn that drugs are going to need a major makeover to become cool again.
Nah. A man who sucks his own dick? That takes effort and deserves respect.
Buh bye now.
progressives’ desire to shift control to the big banks
[citation needed]
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make Barbie.
We're a point-and-laugh-at-TESCREAL-people group.
Well, not all of the comments there are horrible. Though there is a guy calling himself "richardfeynman" saying some pretty silly stuff. His prior comment history is full of promptfondling.
There could be other "into the locker now" signals that are as strong as calling yourself "richardfeynman" on Hacker News, but I cannot think of a stronger one.