Soyweiser

joined 2 years ago
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 10 hours ago

It is gonna be worse, they can back up their statements by referring to people who were actually there, but they person they then would be referring to is Tim Pool, and you can't as an first principles intellectual of the order of LessWrong, reveal that actually you get your information from disgraced yt'ers like all the other rightwing plebs. It has to remain an unspoken secret.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You called them racist without proving from first principles it is bad to be racist, that they are racist, and their specific form of racism is also bad and will not lead to better outcomes in than being non-racist in the megafuture.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago

Well, the first thing I thought about was also the flag (but more because people brought it up a while back), and TIL about the SCP foundation (despite me talking about 4chan from time to time I never have been a channer, I have only very rarely posted some stuff in the roguelikes topic, and left when people let the neo-nazis in who kept calling people who asked a bit of money for a roguelike jews. Just sucks they never heard of the nazi bar stuff.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

https://archive.is/PDgTJ this one seems to work. "The world should prepare for the looming quantum era: New breakthroughs underscore the technology’s potential and perils"

The headline jumps into the critihype already. (which might be justified by the article, im just judging the book by the cover)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Re the flag.

Not just that, but they also on a less malicious case id4chan, and now id6chan were also 4chan productions iirc. (With others from the internet also helping). Which documents all kinds of strange warhammer lore, the /tg/ interpretation of that and their various hate for certain authors of the games. For example https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Robin_Cruddace

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 15 hours ago

With apologies to Stross: "you shall not copy floppies in my lightcone"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago

Only for friends, so we should call him Mister Sneerclub. Or Her Sneer if you are German and want to be informal.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

I put several hours of thought and effort into the concept and creating it,

Several hours of thought.

He is talking about an ice skating image where they are skating on flowing water, without skates. https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/gene-wolfe/suzanne-delage/2023-10-28-gwern-midjourneyv5-germanexpressionistlinocutofsinisternewenglandtowninwinter.jpg this image. It is supposed to evoke the idea of a declining town under draculas influence.

(Imagine if had just spend those hours on something else and paid an artist the same hours to make something. Or if he had grabbed a pencil or charcoal himself).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

John Sneerclub

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The problem is they dont read sneerclub well, so they dont realize we dont relitigate the same shit every time. So when they come in with their hammers (prediction markets, being weird about ai, etc) we just go 'lol, these nerds' and dont go writing down the same stuff every time. As the community has a shared knowledge base, they do the same by not going into details every time how a prediction market would help and work. But due to their weird tribal thinking and thinking they are superior they think when we do it it is bad.

It is just amazing how much he doesn't get basic interactions. And not like we dont like to explain stuff when new people ask about it. Or often when not even asked.

Think one of the problems with lw is that they think stuff that is long, is well written and argued, even better if it used a lot of complex sounding words. see how they like Chris Langan as you mentioned. Just a high rate of 'I have no idea what he is talking about but it sounds deep' shit.

To quote from the lw article you linked on the guy

CTMU has a high-IQ mystique about it: if you don't get it, maybe it's because your IQ is too low. The paper itself is dense with insights, especially the first part.

Makes you wonder how many people had a formal academic education, as one of the big things of that is that it has none of this mystique, as it build on top of each other and often can feel reasonable easy and making sense. (Because learning the basics preps you for the more advanced stuff, which is not to say this is the case every time, esp if some of your skills are lacking, but none of this high-IQ mystique (which also seems the utter wrong thing to look for)).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago

So why did you have your first child?

Optimus found a gun.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

It is very important we do not congratulate you over this, or we will become linkedin!

 

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

 

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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