[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

Indeed, the LinkedIn attractor appears to be the memetically most successful way groups relate to their ingroup members, while the sneer attractor governs how they relate to their outgroups.

AND OLIVER COMES IN FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH THE HOTDOG COSTUME

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

blueberry with 3 Rs bread

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this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who's actively being a drain on the site

here's his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline "wordy racist fest":

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don't need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

American fascism: run by atheists who fear God and evangelists who don't

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago

that's center as in race realist

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The bit in the video showing the cites to the race scientist in the race science pseudojournal is from Shane Legg's 2008 paper. He just happened to reach for the race scientist first, you see.

I have someone else's draft here of a writeup nailing a zillion examples of this shit from the wider field of AI since the 1990s, eager for that to finally come out some time.

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We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum (www.programmablemutter.com)
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yes scott we know you are (scottaaronson.blog)
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by College Hill

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 42 points 8 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 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

rationalists whoo

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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 81 points 1 year 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 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 58 points 1 year ago

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

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