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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago

I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander

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I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander

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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago
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Has anyone listened to the new Behind the Bastards podcast episode that strongly features EA as a negative idea?
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      Ima sit here and imagine a world where SneerClub makes enough money to cover its own infrastructure, much less the literal fuckton of cash that gets thrown at EA and rationalist groups because there’s good money in carrying water for billionaires who need a smart-sounding excuse for doing a whole bunch of racism

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        Since that does not seem likely to be the sort of answer you’re looking for though, if I wanted to bridge the inferential gap with a hypothetical Sneer Clubber who genuinely cared about truth, or indeed about anything other than status (which they do not), I’d tell them that convention doesn’t work as well as one might think. If you think that the conventional way to approach the world is usually right, the rationalist community will seem unusually stupid.

        get in the fucking locker

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      wow the angry downvotes, much coolness so rational

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        the downvotes and absolute lack of replies whenever SneerClubMod made a point they couldn’t pedantically dismiss are very noticeable

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            * an invitation for monologue

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