Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
someone re-invented email-threading. It’s billed as a way to have “long and complex discussions.” Their prototypical example? Yud’s utterly pointless thoughts on imaginary scenarios conjured up by his immense brain. Orange site is skeptical and yearns for 4chan instead.
The feature I am looking forward to the most in comminication apps is having a machine learning model listen to those “quick calls”, generate summary and action items and post them right back in the thread. You get the benefits of both worlds that way.
Oh, you do, do you?
Announced a year ago. AFAIK nothing like it actually exists yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE
Fractal sealions
I love the HN response that’s basically “soooo, usenet with trn, then?” Though a client that handles email reply bottom posting with “>” prefixed fragments more accurately describes this use case.
Either way there is nothing new under the sun.
Their entire manifesto could have been replaced with:
“Oh hey check out our threads in threads demo so you can comment on comments!”
Like it’s not that deep. It doesn’t need a manifesto.
This manifesto could have been an e-mail!
Hi, Im threadGPT, I am an advanced AI which will make concise bullet points out of longer email or comments, here is a bulletpointed list of the above comment.
- This manifesto could have been an e-mail!
- As a large language model, if anyone deserved to have a Tamagotchi of them tortured for all eternity …
Ohio State commencement speaker was bitcoin maxi Chris Pan, who tossed a suggestion to buy bitcoin into the middle of his speech, got audibly booed.
Molly has some fun details on Musk’s hell site.
From the notes, it starts with normal inspirational speech garbage-- life pro-tip: do not repeat stupid parables saying that blind people have limited perspectives to large audiences-- then bitcoin comes up in the middle:
I know this might feel polarizing but I encourage you to keep an open mind. Right now, I see Bitcoin as a very misunderstood asset class. It is decentralized and finite which means no government can print more at will. In the early days, the exchanges for Bitcoin were prone to hacks and fraud. But this issue has been solved with the recent launch of bitcoin ETFs backed by the world’s 2 largest asset managers, BlackRock and Fidelity. And you can hold these ETFs in your retirement accounts just like you hold the S&P 500.
I’d love to do a demo for you: So here are 4 quarters. Inflation after 4 years has turned this into 3 quarters of purchasing power. Now if we apply some innovation and open-mindedness… Investing in your financial literacy will unlock so much freedom and possibilities for you.
His Twitter bio says that he’s “helping a billion people.” That’s quite a flex!
Here’s molly white’s thread on nitter.
University President Carter holding up a “bitcoin” in the part of the speech about the quarters
Ayahuasca Intelligence
I often thing back about the smug coiners mocking the TSA agent looking for physical bitcoins on a pro bitcoin person, when they do stuff like put bitcoin data in actual coins or make bitcoin coins.
(It does amaze me a little bit none of them seem to got that this was actually bad for bitcoin, as this just shows how hard to understand it all is for normal people, and them doing it themselves is just confusing more people intentionally)
Imagine going to university only to learn that the president falls for grifters that 10 year olds can detect.
“my dad’s
a better grifterstronger than your dad!!!”So about that.
Ted Carter is apparently on the board of an bitcoin mining company called TeraWulf.
Ah yes, tell me again about the novel useful things genML can do. I seem to remember something about it helping people?
Introducing AI-Powered Audiobooks of Rational Fiction Classics
You know, sometimes I wish my words had touched more lives, but at least I can console myself with the discovery that nothing I’ve written has fucked people up that badly.
Google has supplemented their AI customer service backend with a just as stupid AI front-end. They’re pushing you to make refund claims with “Google AI”. It’s a chat bot, and you’re pushed to use it to see the status of your refunds. Clicking a button and viewing a table of refund requests is apparently too Web 2.0, so instead you can ask a chatbot to pull up that status of your refunds one…by…one. It’s the second least useful use of a chatbot I’ve ever seen personally, right behind the chatbot they put into my office’s seating software.
https://x.com/louisanslow/status/1789751075026661855?s=46&t=nT1XIOTx9ax3_3I0GXvgVQ
Rat orgies reach stand up comedy circuit. (Sorry for no nitter)
This is the greatest ad for Twitter ever, hosting content like this. God damn that is amazing.
came here to post that, amazing
Sam Bankman-Fried interviewed by Puck News!
this has been going around to great publicity from all!
it’s an insufferably vapid and self-serving rehash of Sam’s late 2022 crime confession tour. i can see why Puck grabbed for the exclusive, but jesus fuck nobody needs to hear from this conman again. Anyway, this copy isn’t paywalled.
I’m sure the prison rice arbitrage thing will end well.
that’s definitely not a set of words I thought I’d read today
so we learn, I guess
“Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies” - posted to HN
Another set of
social darwinismsdark bio troofs feat. 2 year old accounts made by promptfondeling libertariansI swear to god, starting a nature vs. nurture debate in a place leaning even slightly libertarian just breaks my brain because I never understand what point they’re even trying to make.
Half of them seem to argue that this is proof rich people stay rich and poor people stay poor (although I fail to see from which side they’re coming) while the other half uses it as thin-veiled excuses to be racist without mentioning race.
They’re just cowardly racists really.
EA forum: Stock prices in a VC-forced bubble show that society will make trillions from AI!!!
first comment: “uh, wtf, that’s not how anything works.”
reply to this comment: “oh yeah? well DEBATE ME”
I like his reply to the second (expunged) comment as well: “AI won’t take our jobs, it will just create value but even if it does take all the jobs we won’t be poor because GDP will go up and when number go up, we steal underpants, ???, PROFIT!”
at least crypto isn’t involved this time. few understand (real world economics)
For such ostensibly smart people, the basics of finance and economics are surprisingly elusive!
not that we should complain too much about this: it’s given them the loss of the castle, the loss of a university-shielded
wastebasketthink tank, and may yet give them some more losses at scale!
as previously discussed, the rabbit r1 turns out to be (gasp) just an android app.
in a twist no one saw coming, the servers running “rabbit os” report to just be running Ubuntu, and the “large action model” that was supposed to be able to watch humans use interfaces and learn how to use them, turns out to just be a series of hardcoded places to click in Playwright.
from bsky: “It is now officially fair game to make fun of this little shit”
Don’t forget Tiffany. Chick got a 13 carat diamond engagement ring from her fellow lucky sperm club member billionaire husband.
https://less.online/ - they couldn’t be bothered to write the 5 lines of js to do their karma discount automatically
Why is Patrick McKenzie attending this, I wonder?
“A Festival of Writers Who are Wrong on the Internet”
How is it possible to be so thoroughly immune to self-reflection.
Vampires?
That ‘only show authors confirmed coming’ button. Wtf lol.
A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.
Wait what she is also attending? Wait, no of course she is, and also lol.
Surprised and a bit disappointed to see patio11 attending. Gwern isn’t though, lol.
I’m a bit surprised to see his name. I read “Seeing like a bank” and snippets of a few other blogposts, he didn’t come off as a ghoul
it’ll be interesting to see his reaction to the room full of race scientists. I wonder how well they can hide their power level.
suspicion: this is a recruitment event, and a lot of people might try to be on their best obfuscatory behaviour
preview:
reality:
“how to inflate your event by pretending there’s more to it” (tbh i wouldn’t mind if esr would inflict his pleasant personality on that crowd; and of course the renowned philosopher agnes callard will attend)
Yeah that was exactly what I meant amazing bullshit
ESR hasn’t blogged for ages,no? I believe his old blog was offline for a long time because lack of TLS/backup or something.
It got a malware infection and nobody bothered fixing it. By the end its commenters were enjoying long threads entirely composed of dogwhistles.
Wildbow: “you know the Empire 88 and the biotinkers were bad guys in Worm right”
Wtf? It’s like they made a sex offenders list, just nothing but libertarians and racists
Seeing Cremieux Recueil will be there, does anyone know who’s behind it, what’s the deal with it, etc? I’m always seeing it pop up on these freaks’ timelines and I imagine it’s eugenics shit but I can never be bothered to dig enough to find the really incriminating stuff. It’s well creepy though.
frequent ACX commenter, Here he is on IQ and genes Very into citing OpenPsych as solid gold scientific fact. Race scientist, yes.
Wow, I knew what I was in for but god that’s unpleasant.
There’s no clearly-articulated theory of cultural regression to the mean, but there is a genetic one, and it is consistent with the results.
Ahh, see, racism is just more intellectually convenient.
Hosting entity appears to be at the bottom:
Ben Pace & the team at Lightcone Infrastructure.
Could start digging from there
Lightcone are the guys convinced they will save the future of humanity by writing and hosting the LessWrong/EA forum code.
I am still curious about how well that belief will hold up under a couple hundred bucks of darknet services
Aha! It turns out Cremieux is the r/slatestarcodex poster formerly known as /u/Tr–yPorn0 (slur dashed out), or TP0 for those who don’t even want the slur in dashed-out form. A really persistent race scientist with a habit of (a) misrepresenting the papers he spammed as links (b) misrepresenting himself. He used to run a tiny blog as “Cremieux” when he was claiming to be an economist from Liechtenstein. Then he got pumped by the other race scientists. So I expect this to very much be Racist Fest.
some past hits from TP0:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/9ypgfl/commenter_calls_hbd_junk_science_ssc_is_having/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/bje7oh/this_whole_exchange_is_gold/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/amna7n/we_know_nigerians_have_low_national_iq_because/
his style is gish gallops and paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims, and citing Emil Kirkegaard’s pseudojournals a lot
Here’s another good one: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12qbsfo/tpo_has_joined_twitter_been_tweeted_by_paul/
paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims
My favorite tp0 moment was when someone pointed out the identical twins in an adoption study he cited were barely separated, and tp0 blocked him and left the original chart using data from the study up.
Googling the blog name brings up this delightful interview
https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/bad-science-vs-based-science-cremieux
Crémieux was kind enough to grant me a podcast, where we covered all manor of things Based, from the IQ of the Ashkenazis, why the Vikings were violent, the effect of selection events, and the need for anonymity in Based science.
Ah yes, anonymity, a cornerstone of the scientific method.
Wow amazing, thank you. What a sicko.
can’t wait to see how the felon musk stans try to excuse this one (archive)
The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data
ah yes, because the lost data is the problem, but the thing floating in someone’s brain after coming loose 3 months ago isn’t something to speak up about. totes fine.
and there’s a certain kind of regularity to keeping the lid on that news. like it was a choice to take that action. if only there were words for something like a pattern? of behaviour? if only[0]
[0] - (with apologies to stealing the phrasing from mmfish)
PZ Myers called this: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/09/i-predicted-the-fate-of-neuralink/
yeah I mean not to dismiss that, it’s not the hardest of predictions. the thing i’m pointing at here is more that another felon musk company lies and misdirects, in the pattern of culture set by the fucking turd-in-chief.
I just feel bad for the guy they implanted this in. Going to join the list of people who had a short term working piece of tech implanted and now are walking around with scrap. (It isn’t that far yet for this guy, but Musk doesn’t have the best track record).
just reminded again of: What if the moon got mad?
in the last couple of years I’ve gotten back into sound (used to work live/tv sound ages back, been trying to learn more production and shit) and as a result of that I’ve gotten to know a looooooot of synth/production/effect/… related things
and christ it hurts to listen to that
I thought that the overproduction and heavy autotune was appropriate to the subject.
On topic:
“Tape machines ought to be big and cumbersome and difficult to use, if only to keep the riff-raff out.”
–Steve Albini
gonna have to read that piece to get the context of the remark. also have a nuanced position on both the things you point to, but you’re definitely correct about the use of this in this context
The obvious weird pauses (between superhuman and AI and the halfway part where suddenly nothing happens) because the AI used to made this doesn’t really understand music are also very appropriate.
sorry bro, maximum good across the quantum wave function of the universe
That is not the only bad thing, check the right side of the moons opening image, why is the moon hairy?
This is almost the plot of The Fifth Season, a hugo winner from a while back.
Also I think a final fantasy, where the moon drops monsters on the planet, and a zelda game.
I read this as The Fifth Element, but it also (almost) works!
I think it would be better as a faux-Hillsong bop.
THE BASILISK IS MY SU-PER-HE-RO
why yes, the kid went to a C of E primary for a bit and they fucking loved that one
The slatestar subreddit is doing its regular so what’s up with all the racists constantly crawling out of the woodwork around here surprised pikachu thread, in response to Scotty doing Hanania Week in the substack.
Amazing how much they memoryholed the Scott emails.
So what exactly happens to people who get really into Scott et al. and then realize that they’re racist? I mean people like OP who genuinely seemed shocked by how buddy buddy their “unorthodox” intellectuals are with blatant racists.
Do they slowly disengage from rationalist-spheres, or do they just become cryptoracists like all the other idw types?
at least one vein of this goes off into the vibes cluster that is TPOT
They start reading sneerclub and then see that the stereotypes about hwo horrible the place is are not true. Then they post, then they are lost.
Trapped in Acausal Robot God’s maze forever
We just cut out the middleman, no fancy simulation needed, we can torture ourselves well enough.
Also what the fuck?
In your mind, is a racist who “possesses strong animus towards non-whites” a special category of person with which we should not engage in any kind of discussion? Or if we should not be casual towards them, how should we act? Why?
is this trying to say “discrimination against racists is the real racism”? … Would that be “racismism”?
“should we really treat violent racists any differently from how we would casually treat a neighbour? what is it really you expect me to do do? why are you so ridiculous?”
just some casual afternoon reframing of violent racism and dehumanising anyone that isn’t like themselves, no biggie
Scott is of the opinion that being able to maintain peaceable discourse with people who you deeply disagree with on political issues is an important feature of society which we shouldn’t readily make exceptions to.
“Scott being nice to racists and reviewing their books positively actually means he’s less racist” is a good rhetorical trick.
It’s also a patently idiotic philosophy boiling down to basically negotiating with terrorists.
HBD is a legit line of scientific inquiry you guys, it’s not just eugenics obsessed weirdoes and fascists trying to bring back birthright as the primary path to privilege.
You can like a thinker without endorsing all of their beliefs, even if their beliefs are evil. Why do people like Schmitt and Heidegger even though they were fascists? Or Foucault given his views on the age of consent? I agree that Hanania’s views are relevant context, but I think it’s fine to write a book review that doesn’t try to analyse the author’s motivations or the book’s place in a wider political context.
Hanania is clearly analogous to Foucault and Heidegger, and also is it even wrong to completely divorce a work from all context.
I think Scott was simply more interested in writing an article on arguments aginst civil rights law than an article on whether Hanania is engaged in an insidious project to smuggle rascist ideas into the mainstream via his legal arguments, and frankly I find that kind of review more interesting too. Perphaps this is irresponsible, but at the end of the day Scott is a modestly influential blogger that just likes to write about things he finds interesting.
uwu smallbean blogger with absolutely no agenda besides the pursuit of truth and civility strikes again.
