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JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react
  • Nobody knew until I wrote about it

  • Extropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind - a history of the early days of several of our very good friends
  • Meditations on Moloch is “soul-wrenching”, apparently. Jesus fucking Christ.

    In what world do these people grow up? “Oh my God, conflict exists between interests and values, things are hard, not every problem is tractable”.

    There used to be a refrain that “Moloch” is effectively Siskind’s word for capitalism, because he can’t bring his libertarian heart to name what everybody understands. But that’s wrong, because Siskind’s view is no more than the shallowest Burkeanism. And the worst thing about every single anti-Utopian is that they all assume everybody else feels as mugged by imperfection as they do.

  • here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them
  • yeah dude the reason people think MDMA isn’t worse than meth is that it isn’t their heart rate they’re worried about with habit-forming meth consumption

  • Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile
  • read that sentence back in a mirror to me

    This isn’t a joke either. Read it back in the mirror. To ME. What do you think you see when you look in the mirror? WRONG.

  • Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile
  • Dogshit writing as well, “we would never wish for a war to occur”, read that sentence back in a mirror to me

    War is the greatest human tragedy, but defence is indispensable. With our commitment to rebuilding the United States’ defensive industrial base, we at Ares aim to ensure this country is prepared to halt any conflict rapidly, and save countless live.

  • TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right
  • It’s all a system. None of that shit is organic. Even on /r/SSC TP0 and Kirkegaard had to pretend they didn’t actually know each other personally

    These people are racism Trotskyists

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • For a moment I thought I’d replied in the wrong context, but it looks like I just straight up replied to the wrong thing. My bad either way

    Ooooh somehow I replied to your reply to the comment rather than to the comment (originally replying to me)

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • Oh, sorry I thought you were the other person trying to tout fediverse garble everywhere, and read what you said in that context

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • I was mostly referring to comments like yours

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • It’s more that I think the whole discussion is completely head-ass

    Nobody who knows anything about the sub should think it’s remotely worth asking beyond “I guess a mod did that”, it’s literally always been this way

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • No, I’ve done a lot of research here and it may be time

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • I just think, and perhaps this is just me, that it is weird, conspiratorial, speech to summarise your research into this question as, paraphrasing, ‘I found out one of the old mods has gone alt right’ and nothing more

    It’s also defensive speech to say “people are allowed to comment on the vibe”. I know they’re allowed to comment on the vibe! I think they’re weird for detecting a bad/weird vibe! I think it’s indicative of a conspiratorial framing! There is so little information to go on in these speculations, and literally none of it out of keeping with ordinary goings on at SneerClub, for anyone remotely invested in anything that has ever gone on there

    Similarly, I found your speech to frame the question itself conspiratorially, as if the fact that one of the old mods has hints of having gone alt right - despite having nothing to do with any recent posts on the subreddit - is worth mentioning at all, certainly not as the only thing of note that your research turned up

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • Throwing in that comment about Son_of_Sophroniscus was pretty out there! My roll would be pretty damn slow had you just left that out. But instead we’ve got that, people talking about a “weird/bad vibe”, reading tea leaves all over the shop…

    But even in just your own case, it seems like the opposite of not jumping to conclusions to throw in references to old mods going alt right that bear absolutely zero relationship to any of the handful of posts on the “resurrected” sub

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • “Why, for fuck’s sake?”, as an illucutionary act, seems to do a lot more than simply “asking the obvious question”

    But it is, indeed, in typical reddit fashion to omit that sort of thing from one’s own complaint about the response one got to one’s provocation, notwithstanding the traditional SneerClub response to user’s complaints, which is of course “if you want to leave, but can’t, we can help with that”

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • People are still subscribed to the subreddit. When a post gets made, it goes on their reddit feed. Lots of mobile users in particular will just have seen it pop up while doomscrolling.

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • All I know is one fundamental thing: between 49 to 100 per cent of you are all fucking nuts.

  • What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
  • /u/completely-ineffable, who founded the sub, and closed the sub a year ago, literally just made a post! That’s all that happened! I’m distantly in touch with that person! Everything is fine! In fact I’d almost be tempted to theorise it was all a dumb ruse to see if you lot turned out to be crazy people!

    And it seems to have worked wonders!

    Who even put the term “resurrected” in there? It’s one post, followed by a smattering of others including posts bickering about the supposed resurrection! What monstrous goings on are people permitting themselves to imagine?

  • Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy department

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    Yo SneerClub I heard you like critiques of LLM bullshit so I put LLM bullshit in your LLM bullshit critique

    www.psychologytoday.com LLMs and the Specter of the Cognitive Black Hole

    Is a "human escape velocity" even possible anymore?

    LLMs and the Specter of the Cognitive Black Hole
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    “I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” Thiel wrote in an online libertarian journal in 2019

    Bwahahahaha get fucked you unbearable scumsucking dork

    I mean just look at his fucking sentence construction with the rule of three and the cute internal rhyme/alliteration on “ideology/inevitability/individual”

    I’m sorry, and this isn’t massively SneerClub except insofar as the death bit is obviously very Yud-coded, it’s just this quote came up again in the middle of a long and really bleak article, and for whatever reason I just burst out laughing

    He’s always so goddamn indignant, like he’s being bullied for his lunch money but he came prepped with the most badass comebacks he could think of in the mirror - I mean seriously, read the quote back to yourself out loud and see if it would ever work outside “an online libertarian journal”, let alone on a stage

    Look at his fucking face, how does this guy get up in the morning and not only take himself seriously, but take himself that goddamn seriously

    Anyway…

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