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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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it's outrageous the NYT called Scoot a racist like Charles Murray! also, Scoot agrees with race science, precisely as Murray does. Also, the leaked 2014 email is only outrageous if you hadn't read SSC (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack's unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

oh holy shit I was only a handful of paragraphs in but he literally says that!!!

So The New York Times implicitly accuses us of being racists, like Charles Murray, and instead of pointing out that being a racist like Charles Murray is the obviously correct position that sensible people will tend to reach in the course of being sensible, we disingenuously deny everything.

one point for (pseudo)intellectual honesty i guess!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I nominate this accidental called shot for Sneer Of The Week

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to see what kind of person would defend Scott, but disparage Murray so..

ctrl-f "Murray" read quote related ctrl-w

I almost don't want to know what motte the author has set up to make Murray's hereditarianism seem "obviously correct" and "sensible". Are we supposed to ignore the cross burning and constant race science posting on twitter?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IMO, we don't want to poke the hornet's nest of Davis defending Murray, lest we get another 20k word sequence that we have to slog through to sneer at.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm so sorry to inform you...

(10,959 words... I don't think I hate myself enough to read this one all the way through.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The second part of this blog post is irrelevant.

Question is, where does the second part begin...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This circuitous, n-tuple negative tenor pervades the whole piece. It's first and foremost frustrating, but after that just sad.

[+] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everything about Zack is sad.

I have to say, if you look past the, well, you know, stuff, he's actually pretty decent at injecting pathos into the posts about his personal life. His writing does a good job bringing you into his extremely depressing/self-loathing inner world -- you really feel for the guy, or at least I do. That said, it's this exact effect which makes me think he is probably not perceiving things as lucidly as he thinks he is. Depression can feel like clarity, but that's no way to live.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Congrats at succeeding at an intellectual Turing test. And they say we strawman them.