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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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here's a great and useful rundown of Scott Alexander Siskind's actual awful beliefs, from a centrist who found it difficult to accept until that email leaked (miniver.blogspot.com)

submitted 6 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Alexandros Marinos, whom I read as engaged-with-but-skeptical-of the “Rationalist” community, says:

Seeing as Marinos' whole beef with Siskind was about the latter's dismissal of invermectin as a potent anti-covid concoction, I would hesitate to cite him as an authority on research standards.

Article worth it just for mentioning Scotty hilariously attempting to whitewash phrenology for counter-culture clout, found in another account that seems to be deep in a covid conspiracy rabbit hole at the moment.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

lmao I had no idea he's pro phrenology. amazing

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Either that or he let his performative contrarianism get out of hand, he did delete the post after all.

Still, it's just like an HBD enthusiast heavy into eugenic optimisation to think that there might be something to measuring skulls, even if it didn't pan out the first time, maybe if they had known about IQ it would have been different, it's a shame the woke mob has made using calipers on school children a crime, etc.

[–] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As far as I know Siskind has never deleted any idea for the contrarianism motivating it getting out of hand. It’s just against his character. Much more likely he considered it revealing his power level (even if he recognised himself as never having really endorsed the idea besides contrarianism in the first place).

Less charitably, more plausibly, at the outside he recognised that it’s a stupid fucking thing to say that makes him look just not smart.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

That's the trouble with talking about thoroughly disingenuous people, you get bogged down with defining if they meant to mean what they wrote. It's all optics.

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