Apparently, no one in academica cares if the results they get are correct, nor do their jobs depend on discovering verificatable theories.10mo ⋅ Revlong57 ⋅ r/SneerClub
Aella with a not-so-surprising hot take on rich people being 'just better at it'. Some good ol' white Protestant work ethic mumbo jumbo.2yr ⋅ marderapc ⋅ r/SneerClub
Is it possible that Yud is overestimating his own importance?1yr ⋅ atelier_ambient_riot ⋅ r/SneerClub
the AI apocalypse is upon us: ChatGPT is now smart enough to dunk on Yudkowsky1yr ⋅ dgerard ⋅ r/SneerClub
Scott Alexander solves getting scammed with prediction markets on friendship:1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Bostrum essentially did a fermi calculation to decide that he “set a national record” and put that on his cv1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Eliezer speculates that AIs are bad at math proofs because earth mathematicians are bad at math1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
An excerpt from LessWrong: how Wealthy People can create Super-children3yr ⋅ MagicWeasel ⋅ r/SneerClub
“People don’t have perfect insight into how their minds work unless I want to criticize education policy” - yudkowsky, I guess1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
In which the Big Yud finally speaks the existence of the Robot God into certainty1yr ⋅ Solgiest ⋅ r/SneerClub
New day, new quest of unhinged rationality, horseshoe theory and false equivalence. Just asking questions?2yr ⋅ marderapc ⋅ r/SneerClub
EY: *inhales toke* ... Why don't The Munsters or Adams Family exist? Must take a genius to write about.3yr ⋅ SlavojVivec ⋅ r/SneerClub
We must burn Galileo to ensure the heliocentrism mind virus does not destroy our society1yr ⋅ DigitalEskarina ⋅ r/SneerClub
SuperGenius Lifehack: Use your cult as distributed travel agency/publishing house1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Rationalists reinvent the venn-diagram but worse and name it after Scott Alexander2yr ⋅ MperorM ⋅ r/SneerClub
“If AI can finish your sentences, AI can finish the world” — Yudkowsky’s Maxim1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
More of the famed “Scott and Bailey”: NYT isn’t the same as infowars, just very similar1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Guy rightly points out that /r/TheMotte is increasingly right-wing propaganda, user promptly shows up in the comments to defend literal Nazis3yr ⋅ just_a_poe_boy ⋅ r/SneerClub
EY discovers that publicly calling community members incompetent prevents said members from contributing. From Paul C’s lethalities article (Would’ve like to post more screens but can only attach one)1yr ⋅ favouriteplace ⋅ r/SneerClub
Area AI expert worried that chatbot needs help because it was trained on dataset with lots of help requests in it, still hates chickens2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Eliezer discovers a brand new infohazard of prediction markets no one has ever encountered (that he knew of)2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
“You’re Probably a Eugenicist” sounds like a great conference talk, where do I signup?2yr ⋅ pja ⋅ r/SneerClub
If the history of doomsday cults tells us anything, this will all get cleared up definitively in the next 10 years2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
I'm not saying Paul Pelosi was attacked by his gay, Democrat-voting lover in a tryst gone wrong. But the historically vital task of distinguishing truth from falsehood compels us to brainstorm ways in which the police and media might be covering up that fact if it did just happen to be true.1yr ⋅ superiority ⋅ r/SneerClub
Is this the best telling on yourself a little too much tweet of all time?3yr ⋅ FistedKermit ⋅ r/SneerClub
This bloody brainfart is doing the current right wing Djokovic schtick of 'getting the rona', believing it will be the booster shot they need, instead of 'big pharma bully' vaccine. Big brain motte time!2yr ⋅ marderapc ⋅ r/SneerClub
New theory: Eliezer is a false flag operation to get me to support LLMs and AGI research?1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Whats the EA position on bringing back sexual harradment in the workplace?2yr ⋅ VapeKarlMarx ⋅ r/SneerClub
Reality also doesn’t give a fuck about the anxiety driven priors you assign fanciful sci-fi scenarios11mo ⋅ shl0ms ⋅ r/SneerClub
Safely Aligning construction and infrastructure is trivial, I guess:2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Roko (of Roko's basilisk fame) has a solution to domestic violence3yr ⋅ completely-ineffable ⋅ r/SneerClub
If only we knew who was responsible for convincing people AI has magical abilities!!!11mo ⋅ shl0ms ⋅ r/SneerClub
His hubris is so insufferable especially for someone so consistently wrong1yr ⋅ StreetBowelEvacuator ⋅ r/SneerClub
Yudkowsky suggests (I think) Bostrum’s apology written by skynet junior?1yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
When all you have is a very silly hammer, everything looks like a goofy nail (robin hanson edition)2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
The result of asking an author on LW how many citations his or her's most cited paper has.1yr ⋅ ThePerson654321 ⋅ r/SneerClub
Supporting minimum wages and bodily autonomy is contradictory, dontyouknow?2yr ⋅ drcopus ⋅ r/SneerClub
I had a rationalist argue with me that all the times we caused species to go extinct were great because it meant we could use their resources better2yr ⋅ Lightwavers ⋅ r/SneerClub
Paul Graham: 80% of my views end up on the left. Wanna guess what the 20% that don't are?2yr ⋅ FabulousRough1683 ⋅ r/SneerClub
TFW Eliezer entirely forgets about Scott’s FDA post from like two weeks ago2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Any problem can be solved by throwing money at it, or “aligning” things with fictional sci fi tech2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Big Brain Miller: ‘if you really care, teach minorities the best strategies to gamble on an open Ponzi scheme with’3yr ⋅ GreenPlasticChair ⋅ r/SneerClub
Rationalist “Effective” “Altruism” very popular with nerds who like to think about computers and sci fi2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Unequal distribution of wealth is apparently not relevant to explaining continued existence of poverty, for Yud3yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Big Question: Why don’t more superheroes turn people into their thralls?2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Less Wronger argues that Magic the Gathering competitive scene and the rational community are important to the world with their culture of clear and effective thinking3yr ⋅ Drexer ⋅ r/SneerClub
Normies can't overcome their evolutionary programming to instinctually cheer for the jocks and jeer for the nerds. That's the reason why there's so much hate for the likes of Zuckerburg while rich sports players get a pass.3yr ⋅ run_zeno_run ⋅ r/SneerClub
Strong evidence that we are currently being tortured within a basilisk:3yr ⋅ IsThisSatireOrNot ⋅ r/SneerClub
I did a woke AMA on themotte. White supremacists predictably came out of the woodwork to tell me how my ideology of being nice to people is actually horrible3yr ⋅ InconvenientPrequel ⋅ r/SneerClub
Wanting better pay as a below minimum wage employee, because that's what markets force you to want, is actually an endorsement of inequality. Thanks Robin.2yr ⋅ 129499399219192930 ⋅ r/SneerClub
I mean, if the market predicts they will, how could you *not* lock them up?2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Hanson **and his lineage** now have some real skin in the game re: ems vs agi2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
primalpoly wants your opinion on permission to use word (first letter unspecified)2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
If you're rational and unbiased enough, you have to accept the possibility of good Nazis2yr ⋅ Klosterheim ⋅ r/SneerClub
Hereticon! Crank Magnetism, the conference. Everything about this is awesome. Funded by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Features several rationalist and IDW favourites.2yr ⋅ dgerard ⋅ r/SneerClub
I’ve still got ”birth rates” and “civilization” unmarked on your bingo card, Paul1yr ⋅ fn-ix ⋅ r/SneerClub
EY poll: Would you want to live in a world with flipped gender roles?3yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Cryptography? Real. AI God can't beat cryptography. But don't worry. The AI god will just use Nanomachines.1yr ⋅ effective-screaming ⋅ r/SneerClub
If an “AI” tells you it plans to hide its source code, does the plan to hide it still count as secret?2yr ⋅ textlossarcade ⋅ r/SneerClub
Flyer at my local university advertises new LLM religion and wonders if all moral and political philosophy is obsolete 🙃. No mention of the usual targets but thought this sub would enjoy.11mo ⋅ camelCaseCondition ⋅ r/SneerClub
Yudkowsky explains why, in order to prevent agi, we must hold the rest of the world at nuclear gunpoint.11mo ⋅ effective-screaming ⋅ r/SneerClub
Hanson demonstrates his hyper-rational mastery of probability and statistics3yr ⋅ blablatrooper ⋅ r/SneerClub
This New York Times article credits Robin Hanson for coming up with the Fermi Paradox4yr ⋅ Sgt_Pepper42 ⋅ r/SneerClub
