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ZACK: well, let me explain clearly and concisely: [25,000 words of incoherent Blanchardian rambling elided] and that's why Eliezer's lax pronoun usage is an existential risk

Super-recursive fractal of not-even-wrongness by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

please check, I have taken out and shot a lot of it

here in Top Pedophiles Of Twitter, my "friend" thinks about race so very little that he shit-tests every new person he meets with a racial slur by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

worth it to own the libs

but also, that's why white people

Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago

The rationalist subculture is very bad at uncoerced consent.

I am extremely curious what the general take around here is on the Singulairty by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago

it's the S in TESCREAL, if that doesn't answer your question you have some more deprogramming to do (and we are not your exit counselors)

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I will never get over how the pretty girl in the photo attached is LITERALLY Roko of the Basilisk's example of the bad ending for humanity (awful.systems)

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really: https://archive.ph/p0jPI

Roko’s twitter is an absolutely reliable guide to how recently a woman with dyed hair and facial piercings kicked him in the nuts again

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The 2023 LessWrong "Why Do We Suck At This" post (www.lesswrong.com)

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Urbit announced its summer accelerator program as "u/acc". Someone asked me "wtf is an Urbit" so I wrote this. May be useful. "what if networked Lisp machines, but for Nazis" (circumstances.run)

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The collected sneerage on Leverage Research (awful.systems)

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There were five posts on r/sneerclub about our very good friends at Leverage Research and many interesting URLs linking off them.

04 Sep 2019: the rich sneering mines to be found by lifting the rock Leverage Research lives under, and the comments are amazing too (archive)
EA forum (archive)
a twitter thread of good bits (archive)
03 Oct 2019: shocked to see that white nationalist neoreactionary Jonah Bennett was in at Leverage Research. Must be coincidence. (archive) "So far Leverage’s greatest contribution to the EA / rationality movement was a genital herpes outbreak."
Splinter News: Leaked Emails Show How White Nationalists Have Infiltrated Conservative Media (archive)
this EA is sure that Bennett was just infiltrating the white nationalists! (archive) though he adds "I previously knew that Leverage has employed several neoreactionaries". In rationalism, an office with a pile of open fucking Nazis in it is just normal. Not everyone's a signed-up party member!
13 Oct 2021: First-Hand Account of the Leverage Cult (archive)
Medium post (archive) by Zoe Curzi. "Many folks have reached out to me privately w/ their own stories about Leverage or Geoff. Some comments on facebook, twitter, Medium, and LessWrong have shared or implied further stories (& concerns about anonymity). So, here’s a place you can submit stories anonymously. It’ll be handled & vetted by Aella, who I trust." oh dear
26 Sep 2021: Leverage Research: shocked, shocked to discover that another LessWrong-associated rationalist group is actually a NXIVM-style sex cult (archive)
LessWrong: Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0 (archive)
Leverage had its own crypto shitcoin, Reserve Rights
Geoff Anders of Leverage has been linked to another crypto thing that has been in the news lately, Arkham Intelligence (archive)
01 Jun 2023: "Serious" research from a "serious" research institute that reads like an SCP (archive) - just in case you thought Leverage wasn't comparable to Scientology.
On Intention Research - Kerry Vaughan, Leverage Research, PDF (archive) - it's about using the forbidden knowledge you gain at Leverage to psychically hypnotise people into wanting to fuck you, though it doesn't come out and say so in those words

and here's the collected LessWrong on Leverage

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Geoff Anders of Leverage Research pivots to crypto (protos.com)

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the Aella master thread I posted to twitter a while ago (awful.systems)

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this was last year when Aella was trying to do a survey of trans people for one of her darling little twitter poll writeups. I felt it was necessary to warn people off this shockingly awful person. Perhaps you will find it useful.

Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1556391089124286467
Archive: https://archive.is/FZK1B

we actually declared an Aella moratorium on the old sneerclub because she just kept coming up with banger after banger