Merdifex posted:

https://twitter.com/graaaaaagh/status/643573513920446465
https://twitter.com/graaaaaagh/status/643574394900508676

Heresiarch posted:

Is this somebody we ought to recognize or is he just a particularly obnoxious example from the Racist Twitter Abyss?

Cingulate posted:

It seems here, it would have been much more helpful for for that cause to go the one-of-the-good-ones route - like, Dawkins could have said how much he prefers an Ahmed who wants to be an engineer to a Charles Douglas jr. who doesn't believe in evolution to regain some anti-racist cred he's been hell-bent to shed recently.

divabot posted:

quote:

* Chain of custody / chain of block

TinTower posted:

Curvature of Earth posted:

Boy do I miss the days when good liberals sat around chanting "Why can't we be friends" instead of plotting the genocide of all who oppose them.

A Man With A Plan posted:

There's some quote that goes something like "Silicon Valley has a near-infinite capacity to mistake social and political problems as technological ones" that comes to mind all the goddamn time when interacting with these people. While Yud isn't really part of SV, there's definitely a shared worldview of a technical messiah.

I have a friend who's posted on facebook about how cryogenics is the only rational choice and how a benevolent powerful AI is imminent. I'm trying so hard not to engage but it's difficult.

Fututor Magnus posted:

McGlockenshire posted:

So SSC has endorsed anyone but Trump

There are 600 comments, and they are way more entertaining than the usual imverysmart drivel in the article.

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Death Eater here and looooong time reader. I am sad that Scott wrote this. If the job is to preserve a (at least one) functioning western civilization through 2100 to make sure AI, genetic engineering and space travel occur, the “vote hillary” and accelerate demographic trends and anti-intellectual SJWism….doesnt seem smart.

Europe is dying. Demographically it will be like Turkey. Turkey is not going to maintain cutting edge scientific research.

The US is turning into Brazil. Demographically, Brazil is incapable of a SpaceX. (They had a rocket blow up on the pad in 2003, effectively ending their program).

Perhaps Scott is going full Nick Land and counting on Asian civilizations to pick up the torch. I think that is the most likely scenario. Unfortunately i have kids and i dont want them growing up in a 3rd World Country.

I think Scott needs to tackle the immigration Q. I know he’s been wrestling with it behind the scenes. He is aware of the demographic/genetic implications. I suppose he believes that genetic tech will storm to the rescue before the US goes under, but that is a bet I’d rather not take.

Latest chapter of Harry Potter and the Communism of Rationality posted:

Chapter 116: hermione supports war
AN: trump will never bee president instead loving JOHN BACHTELL WILL

Then all the food appeared bourgeoisly and we started to loving EAT IT LIKE WE WOULD EAT THE loving RICH AFTER THE loving REVOLUTION.

"Harry, I just want to say how very sorry I am for the ordeal you must have gone through at the hands of those awful freedom-hating Death Eaters," said that ugly liberal nag Hermione, although her hideous face and tiny boobs did not influence my opinion of her political views at all. "I don't know if I can ever completely forgive you for what you did to me and those other students when you attacked us in the Room of Requirement, but I hope this experience has reminded you that we're all on the same side here."

"WE ARE loving NOT!" I yelled gloriously, laughing in HER loving FACE. "You just fell for a load of loving BOURGEOIS PROPAGANDA!"

"All right, that does it!" Hermione snapped reactionarily. "I don't know why I even bother with you. As far as I'm concerned, Moody should have just left you to those Death Eater terrorists! I suppose then you would be happy!"

"YES, I loving WOULD!" I yelled in the righteous voice of working-class feminism. "Then loving TONKS would still be alive!"

"She's not the only woman who would still be alive if not for this misogynistic War on Voldemort," said my progressive comrade Draco Malfoy. He held up The Daily Prophet, which had the headline, "Aurors Kill Innocent Woman They Thought Was A Death Eater, But It's No Big Deal Because She Was A Woman Of Color".

"It was an honest mistake," said Hermione in the bourgeois voice of liberal white privilege. "Why would the Aurors be targeting women of color? That would make no sense, obviously. Besides, fighting the Death Eaters is important because they're a threat to our wonderful freedom."

"THAT DOES IT!" I decided rebelliously. "WE'RE ALL loving DEATH EATERS NOW!"

danger-carpet posted:

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I do have direct evidence from personal experience that cruising for a gang bang from males that are low status in the ostensible male hierarchy is alarmingly common behavior among hot chicks

Somfin posted:

Might help with the oncoming legal costs, though.

LibrarianCroaker posted:

I'm pretty sure the swastika is a necklace.

Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ posted:

But now his tone changed as he began to tell the audience of more than 200 people, mostly young men, what they had been waiting to hear. He railed against Jews and, with a smile, quoted Nazi propaganda in the original German. America, he said, belonged to white people, whom he called the “children of the sun,” a race of conquerors and creators who had been marginalized but now, in the era of President-elect Donald J. Trump, were “awakening to their own identity.”

As he finished, several audience members had their arms outstretched in a Nazi salute. When Mr. Spencer, or perhaps another person standing near him at the front of the room — it was not clear who — shouted, “Heil the people! Heil victory,” the room shouted it back.

[...] Some speakers made an effort to distance themselves from more notorious white power organizations like the Ku Klux Klan.

But as the night wore on and most reporters had gone home, the language changed.

Mr. Spencer’s after-dinner speech began with a polemic against the “mainstream media,” before he briefly paused. “Perhaps we should refer to them in the original German?” he said.

The audience immediately screamed back, “Lügenpresse,” reviving a Nazi-era word that means “lying press.”

Mr. Spencer suggested that the news media had been critical of Mr. Trump throughout the campaign in order to protect Jewish interests. He mused about the political commentators who gave Mr. Trump little chance of winning.

“One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem,” he said, referring to a Jewish fable about the golem, a clay giant that a rabbi brings to life to protect the Jews.

'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect posted:

“Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”

That’s how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Saturday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the National Policy Institute, which describes itself as “an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.”

Spencer has popularized the term “alt-right” to describe the movement he leads. Spencer has said his dream is “a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans,” and has called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing.”

For most of the day, a parade of speakers discussed their ideology in relatively anodyne terms, putting a presentable face on their agenda. But after dinner, when most journalists had already departed, Spencer rose and delivered a speech to his followers dripping with anti-Semitism, and leaving no doubt as to what he actually seeks. He referred to the mainstream media as “Lügenpresse,” a term he said he was borrowing from “the original German”; the Nazis used the word to attack their critics in the press.

“America was until this past generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity,” Spencer said. “It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us.”

The audience offered cheers, applause, and enthusiastic Nazi salutes.

Here is the video, excerpted from an Atlantic documentary profile of Spencer that will premiere in December 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk

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The Vosgian Beast posted:

https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/796388921735135232

https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/796389373142929408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/sources-report-trump-executive-order-lgbtq-community-coming-soon/

I for one am deeply surprised an apolitical Zhuangist skeptic in the tradition of Hume and Stirner could not predict this extremely easy to predict outcome

The Vosgian Beast posted:

I never had the Disney channel as a kid so I wouldn't know. I think the general consensus among people my age is that it was pretty okay as cartoons targeted at african-americans go. Presumably neoreactionaries hate it for cultural degeneracy

Wikipedia article on Proud Boys posted:

Proud Boys social-political conservative movement based in the United States, which the New Yorker described as a “pro-Western fraternal organization” for men who “refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” The group was founded by libertarian/conservative podcaster Gavin McInnes in 2016.^{[1][unreliable source?]}

The group takes its name from the showtune Proud of Your Boy, a song introduced in the 2011 stage-show version of Disney's Aladdin.^[2][3] Proud Boys are supposed to practice abstinence from masturbation.^[3]

[1] Osnos, Evan (2017-02-06). "Trump Supporters at the DeploraBall". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
[2] "The fratty Proud Boys are the alt right's weirdest new phenomenon". Medium.com. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
[3] Disser, Nicole (July 28, 2016). Gavin McInnes and his Proud Boys want to make white men great again. Bedfordandbowery.com

ate all the Oreos posted:

It's like how corporations treat unpaid internships except explicit and even dumber

ate all the Oreos posted:

I've argued with a few transhumanists and it's fascinating how sure they are of the whole thing, and that it can't just be a weird faith/religion thing because it's obviously true. You know, unlike all those people who believe in the dumb sky wizard which must be obviously false even to them, the future AI Skynet wizard is obviously real and the most likely outcome.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Please don't dou that, Ross

Anil Dasharez0ne posted:

My favorite response was the one pointing out that a surgically created vagina, unlike the F-35, works when wet.

BattleMaster posted:

My boyfriend's response: "Chelsea Manning transitioned into a woman, the F35 will never transition into an effective aircraft."

The Vosgian Beast posted:

But does it suck as hard as Davis Aurini?

KillerQueen posted:

SHEEEEEEEEPLE!

Lottery of Babylon posted:

5 But the Prog came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Prog said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Sax Solo posted:

There's a lot to laugh at, but I think my favorite part is how evopsych is like a key teaching of rationalism.

ate all the Oreos posted:

Whenever the FPlus does a poetry episode / segment there's always someone who thinks they're being clever by writing a line like "tongue-box your winking starfish" or "rhythmically knock at your slimy door"

Sax Solo posted:

lovely Scott

Improbable Lobster posted:

"We fell for that one and we must be at least as smart as an AI"

eschaton posted:

This is not a page of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. This page is a message. It is part of a system of messages. We considered ourselves a powerful phyg.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

ate all the Oreos posted:

Go on, compare them, I'll wait

Somfin posted:

Basically they assume that the AI entity will achieve both their specific idea of intelligence, which happens to be represented by a number, and awareness of that number and all of its connotations, and then it will rationally make the decision to do whatever it takes to increase that number because that's what getting smarter means to them.