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divabot posted:the adtech industry is close to this. generated pages, clicked on by clickbots. The first randomly generated page that really jarred me was one of those pages that are created dynamically to catch search engine queries. I was looking for a story by artist Tim Kreider about a time he'd gotten stabbed, and I figured "Tim Kreider stabbed" would be a pretty specific search term, but the "Are You Feeling Lucky?" result was a page filled with banners on the theme "WOULD YOU LIKE TIM KREIDER STABBED? WE HAVE BEST TIM KREIDER STABBED!" etc which was disconcerting, but funny enough that I sent him a screenshot. It didn't bother him because he was used to getting human-generated death threats.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I would think it would devolve into static pretty quickly You come back after only one week to find that every single comment is just the word "cuck" repeated 300 times
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darthbob88 posted:Current threat: "I'm sorry sir, but The Algorithm says you fit its profile for a high risk debtor, so we will not be lending to you. Also, your neighborhood looks like A Bad Neighborhood according to The Algorithm so we will not be funding your neighborhood school. No, none of these things have anything to do with your skin color, it's just The Algorithm."
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Syd Midnight posted:The first randomly generated page that really jarred me was one of those pages that are created dynamically to catch search engine queries. I was looking for a story by artist Tim Kreider about a time he'd gotten stabbed, and I figured "Tim Kreider stabbed" would be a pretty specific search term, but the "Are You Feeling Lucky?" result was a page filled with banners on the theme "WOULD YOU LIKE TIM KREIDER STABBED? WE HAVE BEST TIM KREIDER STABBED!" etc which was disconcerting, but funny enough that I sent him a screenshot. It didn't bother him because he was used to getting human-generated death threats. Huh so you're the 0.001% of people who used feeling lucky, I was wondering
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pookel posted:Don't forget "I'm sorry, sir, but the sentencing was based on The Algorithm which found that you are more likely to re-offend. No, this has nothing to do with your skin color." It's like that Atwater quote except updated for the 21st century
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Nov 10, 2017 16:06
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://twitter.com/PhilSandifer/status/904015634245312514 I am not overly fond of Sandifer, but I will say that whenever he does something right he really knocks it out of the park. This is spot-on.
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I've been reading Discipline and Punish, and what do you know, these order-obsessed dorks actually have some historical precedent! Namely, 19th Century prison reformer and extremely normal person Léon Faucher:Not an evil AI or an anime villain posted:Go into a cotton-mill; listen to the conversations of the workers and the whistling of the machines. Is there any contrast in the world more afflicting than the regulatory and predictability of these mechanical movements, compared with the disorder of ideas and morals, produced by the contact of so many men, women, and children? Not Eripsa or a Silicon Valley prison-disruptor posted:Work is the Providence of the modern peoples; it replaces morality, fills the gap left by beliefs and is regarded as the pinnacle of all good. Work must be the religion of the prisons. For machine-society, purely mechanical means of reform are required. It took me a little bit to realize that his writing style and general tone remind me of the things from They're Made Out of Meat.
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Goon Danton posted:It took me a little bit to realize that his writing style and general tone remind me of the things from They're Made Out of Meat. Thank you for giving me another excuse to watch this. 
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pookel posted:Don't forget "I'm sorry, sir, but the sentencing was based on The Algorithm which found that you are more likely to re-offend. No, this has nothing to do with your skin color." There's a 99% chance that Yud, being Nazi-adjacent, wouldn't see a problem with racism-bots
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Improbable Lobster posted:There's a 99% chance that Yud, being Nazi-adjacent, wouldn't see a problem with racism-bots Come on now. "Nazi-adjacent" is a stretch.
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Silver2195 posted:Come on now. "Nazi-adjacent" is a stretch. Not really
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The most subtlety I've ever seen Big Yud show is the one sequence where he insinuates as hard as possible that race realism is true and you'd have to be a dumb reLIEgionist SJW to think otherwise as he can without actually saying it EDIT: found it http://lesswrong.com/lw/kk/why_are_individual_iq_differences_ok/
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Silver2195 posted:Come on now. "Nazi-adjacent" is a stretch. Yeah, he was raised Orthodox, while others from his cult may have gone there he seems to have at least stayed away from that.
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In further stream-crossing, let's not forget that Vitalik Buterin, founder of second most popular cryptocurrency Ethereum, is a huge LessWronger, and posted this today: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/930289679294873600 That was just after he'd tweeted this, which he deleted when it didn't go down very well: https://twitter.com/ButtCoin/status/930297347506130945
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I wonder what it's like having to wipe your social media comments as often as you have to wipe your rear end (and for the same reason)
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Nov 14, 2017 12:53
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Syd Midnight posted:I wonder what it's like having to wipe your social media comments as often as you have to wipe your rear end (and for the same reason)
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Syd Midnight posted:I wonder what it's like having to wipe your social media comments as often as you have to wipe your rear end (and for the same reason) I think it’s like being 23 years old and in the spotlight, probably.
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Subjunctive posted:I think it’s like being 23 years old and in the spotlight, probably. Also he's a bad person, that doesn't help.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Also he's a bad person, that doesn't help. but if you read the tweet in context, then welp never mind
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divabot posted:but if you read the tweet in context, then It’s even worse than it seemed!
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ate all the Oreos posted:Also he's a bad person, that doesn't help. He’s nice and also patient in person, at least.
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Subjunctive posted:He’s nice and also patient in person, at least. He is absolutely as good as a smart kid who read way too much LessWrong at a formative age gets
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hybrid people made from an elixir of hormones and thigh fat
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Lottery of Babylon posted:hybrid people made from an elixir of hormones and thigh fat Trans women on Twitter have been laughing about this all day.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:hybrid people made from an elixir of hormones and thigh fat I mean I'm not trans but this basically describes me.
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This year's lament about the failure of the LessWrong Rationality subculture to achieve anything. Includes bonus "I'm totally not an SJW, but" when talking about the subculture's amazing ability to repel hyumon feeemales. Bonus beats: that time when literally advocating the 14 Words by name would get you 40+ upvotes on /r/slatestarcodex
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"...that anyone who actually took the Sequences literally was either too autistic or naive to realise that they weren’t in on the joke." My favorite part of any Rationalist writing is the brief moment of lucidity before the writer disappears back up Yud's rear end in a top hat.
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Puppy Time posted:I mean I'm not trans but this basically describes me. 
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Silver2195 posted:Come on now. "Nazi-adjacent" is a stretch. Later in the episode he has a dinner party where he gets increasingly incensed at his guests as they grow uncomfortable with the overheard snatches of a plan for a new beer hall putsch next door. "Why don't they understand this isn't worth concerning themselves with?" He thinks to himself. "If it was really that bad I'd obviously swallow my pride and make common cause with people I resent. Since I haven't, it clearly isn't as bad as all that." Eventually he loses his temper with a distraught dinner guest, and in a fit of rage acidentally uses a racial slur he's heard constantly from next door. We never hear what it is because the dialogue is cut off by a smash cut to the credits as the Curb Your Enthusiam theme plays. By my reckoning we're about 3/4ths of the way through that episode.
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divabot posted:Bonus beats: that time when literally advocating the 14 Words by name would get you 40+ upvotes on /r/slatestarcodex Apart from namedropping the 14 words, some loving nazi posted:the proper response, to me, was to stop litigating facts and respond in kind, rallying my own tribe by saying "yes, white privilege exists; it's fantastic, and we'd like more of it, thanks." Ah yes hm a cogent argument, very well written, I am feeling so rational right now.
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Some choice responses to thatDolts posted:That was a terribly cogent argument, but I'm afraid the arguments themselves are drowned out by the scarcely heard mocking laughter of thirsting gods. Moloch smiles, and the future becomes a little more grimdark.
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Haha here's his twitter https://twitter.com/AnechoicMedia14 hallo Richard Spencer
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Some choice responses to that Wow, doing your civic duty is so easy when you just have to Stay White and not vote, please continue to do that all of you
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Haha here's his twitter That's this guy - Vitalik Buterin? I read back but I'm sleepy and not sure if I got it. 
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WrenP-Complete posted:That's this guy - Vitalik Buterin? I read back but I'm sleepy and not sure if I got it. Nah the guy who got 40+ upvotes on /r/slatestarcodex for repeating neonazi talking points
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Nah the guy who got 40+ upvotes on /r/slatestarcodex for repeating neonazi talking points Thanks for clarification.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Haha here's his twitter nazi dude posted:The most hilarious aspect of our diverse world is how millennia old foundational knowledge of society-building just evaporates outside of the white world. Hm yes the thousands of years of knowledge us enlightened whites have had of hygiene and germ theory. Like seriously some of the greatest advancements in medicine have just been figuring out how to keep patients from getting their goop on carers and other patients, and you don't have to look back that far to see them. How does someone even break their brain hard enough to think this Gitro has a new favorite as of 11:48 on Nov 18, 2017 |
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FYI, I read ‘The Basilisk Murders’, that novel about the Dark Enlightenment/LessWrong groupies, and I wouldn’t recommend it. Author doesn’t deliver on the premise due to a basic lack of talent for/practice in writing, plotting, and characterisation. I’d actually say that Yudkowsky can construct a more consistently engaging sentence in Methods of Rationality, as smug and amateur as that shitpile is.
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Gitro posted:Hm yes the thousands of years of knowledge us enlightened whites have had of hygiene and germ theory. Holy poo poo I forgot all about pox parties existing, that brought back some weird memories. I never went to one or anything but I knew about them as a kid and knew people who did. It's super weird to think that chickenpox has a vaccine now and the number of cases per year has dropped a whole order of magnitude, and I'm probably in the last generation of kids for which chickenpox was just a thing that happens to pretty much everyone eventually growing up.
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The best article you will read on Jordan Peterson.quote:As a child, I was always a bit uncomfortable when my parents’ friends asked me to call them “Auntie.” I was pretty sure there was no peer-reviewed literature supporting this familial relationship, but it never occurred to me to attempt to politicize, let alone monetize, my unease. I certainly never accused “Auntie June” of trying to undermine Western civilization in the service of a post-modern neo-Marxist agenda every time she brought over a casserole. I wouldn’t have gotten any pudding. quote:But woe betide those fields that have abandoned serious inquiry and empirical evidence and have become cult-like: Guru Jordan will vanquish you—just as soon as he’s done prepping his course, Psychology 434: Maps of Meaning. What Peterson's offering there, btw, is literally how Dianetics, i.e. Scientology, is claimed to work. I wonder if Peterson realises this.
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