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We don't make nearly enough fun of Nick Land (which probably has something to do with a vague unease about making fun of the mentally ill) but we really should. https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/862307541807620098 "Sticking with the crudest racial taxonomy, and Sailer's old 'The Color of Love' work, it's easy to draw up a miscegenation matrix ..."
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Clark has apparently never spoken with anyone who has been outdoors. It is woods, targets in the woods. Targets in the wood is some weird British gentry nonsense.
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May 28, 2017 12:00
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like even if throwing knives was attractive, attempting to throw knives and cutting your hands up instead would not be. It's deeply revealing of how little the dude understands the mechanics of knife throwing, yeah.
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May 28, 2017 21:37
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In case you were curious about the original Dragon Army post "fascist/authoritarian take on rationalist housing" This is going to end in tears and it's going to be the tears of people who were warned repeatedly. "Second, even the group houses seem to be plagued by the same sense of unanchored abandoned loneliness that's hitting the rationalist community specifically and the Plissken faction more generally" Is this a thing? It doesn't sound like a thing. It does sound like a thing you'd be looking for as far as recruiting new members for a cult though.  "In my work at the Center for Applied Rationality..."this is a cult in case you were curious, specifically one that's undergoing a schism over exactly how important MIRI is (very or most) "if they're willing to trust me more than they trust their own sense of things" Yep. "Likely participants in the final house spent ~64 consecutive hours in my company a couple of weekends ago, specifically to play around with living under my thumb and see whether it's actually a good place to be; " I mean at least he's upfront about it. "my tyranny, if net bad, has a natural time limit" It's entirely possible he believes his own press here, but he really shouldn't. His code of conduct is basically a checklist of what you'd do if you were setting up a cult. Really, the whole article is worth reading if you've got the time.
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Jun 2, 2017 13:44
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Honestly, some dude with a machete screaming about the acausaul bargain he made with the Mind at the End of Time as he chases down an AI researcher who doesn't tithe to MIRI is absolutely going to happen.
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Jun 2, 2017 14:08
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divabot posted:We joke about MIRI "cultists", but the "chief architect" of Arbital has just made that rather less amusing. None of us were joking? Seriously, MIRI is cultish, CFAR is a cult, and the Rationality movement as a whole is infested with the kinds of people who in any other circumstance would be avoided.
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Jun 6, 2017 01:20
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ate all the Oreos posted:So let's ignore for a moment the fact that the whole "transfuse blood from young people" thing doesn't work, is based entirely on a misinterpretation and deliberate misrepresentation of study results and exists solely to extract money from rich idiots, what are you saying you weird lady Basically, if you're proposing we're all going to be immortal and have unlimited resources, you should do the second part first, because otherwise the immortal people are going to use too many resources and the immortality isn't going to be fairly distributed. Eventually you'll see committed Leftists launching attacks on the immortals for what to this woman are incomprehensible reasons. She's kind of right, in that the people who are most likely to benefit from longer lives are the people who are likeliest to sell us all out in return for a chance at immortality and that'll need to be dealt with, but it's so far down the road that it's going to be a problem for our grandkids to solve.
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Jun 6, 2017 16:30
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Jun 6, 2017 17:14
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ate all the Oreos posted:It's so telling that they're using "people should be allowed to achieve self-actualization" as some kind of obviously degenerate horror that needs no explanation for why it's terrible Well they did, and look at how well that worked out.
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Jun 8, 2017 14:56
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divabot posted:http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/MetaMed Look at the idiots perverting his work with obvious disdain and contempt?
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Jun 15, 2017 10:10
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Neon Noodle posted:It's not entirely NRx related but I really want to make a long post about the Art Renewal Centre. It's kind of only interesting to artists though? Would anyone here care? Tangents keep threads alive 
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Jun 17, 2017 13:04
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ate all the Oreos posted:Like it's so drat telling that every interaction a lot of these people have is some kind of transaction to them. Nick Land's final victory.
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Jun 22, 2017 14:24
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The only thing of Hollerback's work I've actually read was his extremely bad take on Lovecraft.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:37
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The only complimentary things I've read about that book boil down to "Well, I guess it takes one neurotic bigot to really know another" Yeah, that's accurate, but it feels slightly unfair to HP. Hollerback is alive right now, he should be better than Lovecraft, not worse
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Jun 26, 2017 20:31
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https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/162446526631/transgirlkyloren-things-about-being-autistic-i slatestarscratchpad I think that (other than certain categories of patients and obvious creepy con artists) I model people as telling the truth to me 100% of the time, and as far as I can tell this assumption works great for me and is always right. I mean, there are so many situations in which the Rational thing to do is lie that I'd assume this was a joke but it's Scott.
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Jul 4, 2017 18:42
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I miss that dude, he was amusingly wrong about basically everything.
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Jul 15, 2017 04:33
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Neon Noodle posted:Wait what happened to Zizek? Unironically thinks Trump is better than Hillary and a bunch of other dumb poo poo.
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Jul 24, 2017 21:26
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TinTower posted:That's Jill Stein. Nobody ever thought she was philosophically coherent though.
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Jul 25, 2017 00:33
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*5000 word post explaining that it's possible to do a thing ironically* Morgan Freeman: It isn't
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Jul 28, 2017 00:03
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Yeah, I'm trying a new bit. I like Freeman's voice for simple declarative statements, the Shawshank Redemption style.
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Jul 28, 2017 00:10
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So in the DE milieu Adorno never went of fashion. These are people who encourage reading of Carlyle and Burke, they're not modern or God forbid, post-modern. Because of the degeneracy and such.
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Aug 6, 2017 06:15
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Fututor Magnus posted:lmao, right? There's no bottom. He'll be one of the leashed scholars they keep around as entertainment. It's basically his ambition.
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Aug 8, 2017 03:14
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/896166762361704450 Ah Musky, truly the most concisely wrong of the Tech Lords.
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Aug 12, 2017 13:32
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Lowtax should just bring back the paywall. May as well make 
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Aug 14, 2017 15:29
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I mean, that's just code for I love all the perks but the work part seems like a drag. There's always abdication if you're hardcore, Harry.
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Aug 16, 2017 18:09
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noether posted:people like to laugh at internet reactionaries that are apparently obsessed with hentai, but can we take a moment to appreciate the ones that are into really saccharine wholesome poo poo that is in direct opposition to their belief system? like I don’t see how you can be both a reacto and into mlp or dragon maid or loving yotsubato or anything like that without a shitload of cognitive dissonance. there’s no way to square “we live in a meritocracy and everyone who isn’t a straight white cis dude is clearly just a loving loser” with properties that go all-in on the power of friendship and how important mutual understanding and tolerance are and poo poo Being blunt about it, it's because they sexualize it and make it reactionary.
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Aug 22, 2017 20:53
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Jim Jimming really hard Dude is losing his mind.The last half of that is embarrassingly incoherent even for him.
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Aug 23, 2017 20:55
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coyo7e posted:What, you didn't realize that HPV vaccines cause AIDS? Canadians are a couple decades behind so their conservatives are still real mad about gay marriage and the Clintons.
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Aug 25, 2017 11:53
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Puppy Time posted:My point is more that this is referring to a hand-picked translady who presumably has access to all this stuff, "surgeried to porn standards," but apparently while having all this alteration done, decided, "Well, I don't REALLY want a vagina that much." Actually it's because the dudes she's sleeping with love chicks with dicks. I can give you the exact quote but what it boils down to is MtFs are sexier to dudes than "real women" for reasons that the (insane) author takes to be so elementary she doesn't ever bother providing them.
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Sep 28, 2017 23:04
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Regarde Aduck posted:I would laugh at this but it got funded. That isn't funny at all. Now i'm sad. It getting funded actually makes it funnier. Much like Star Citizen.
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Oct 1, 2017 17:47
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Goon Danton posted:What the hell was the pro-simulation argument supposed to be, anyway? Beyond "I want it to be true." It's a requirement for many of their other beliefs. Rationalists are very strange people.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:32
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Munin posted:Roko's Basilisk doesn't work without the possibility of AIs simulating the universe. That simultaneously shows how dumb it is and how dumb these nutheads are to freak out about it. It's also a requirement for Timeless Decision Theory and a bunch of other Capitalized Words that for some reason we're not allowed to call obvious psychosis manifestations.
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Oct 3, 2017 21:15
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divabot posted:Professional opinion-haver, Gamergate "well there's two sides here"-er, and ... the guy who made Roko's Basilisk really famous! Makes sense though, engineers are early adopters of really terrible ideas. Management aren't dumb enough to send emails talking about  etc.*edit* excuse me, company wide emails Relevant Tangent has a new favorite as of 12:32 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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there wolf posted:Someone has never gotten drunk with HR employees. HR is on the downlow always the department with the most drama, engineering is the department with the most public drama. Because all engineers think of themselves as smart, capable people, any serious disagreements over how things ought to be done inside (or God forbid) outside the department lead to at least two deeply proud people not-giving-an-inch at one another as hard as possible. HR dude might be loving half the office, but he keeps it quiet.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:45
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Has Scott ever admitted to loving up something important or is he a Never Owned?
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Oct 22, 2017 03:57
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That the races have different IQs and the only reason he can't say black people are dumber than white people is society keeping him down. That's a charitable interpretation. Also the first loving sentence in the second paragraph is citation needed as all hell. Jesus.
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Oct 25, 2017 03:36
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Owns, owns, owns. It's peak Rationality right out the gate. "Surely some humility is appropriate when criticizing the elite decision-makers governing the Bank of Japan." (He does not actually come to this conclusion, ofc.)
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Nov 3, 2017 15:38
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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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"I initially tried ordering the cheapest LED lights from Hong Kong that I could find on eBay. I didn’t feel like I could rely on the US lighting market to equalize prices with Hong Kong, and so I wasn’t confident that the premium price for US LED bulbs represented a quality difference. But when the cheap lights finally arrived from Hong Kong, they were dim, inefficient, and of visibly low color quality. So I decided to buy the more expensive US light bulbs for my next design iteration." In which our hero discovers that you get what you pay for.
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overeager overeater posted:curiously absent: the possibility of the AI intoning "this poo poo's boring, who cares" the AI isn't allowed to destroy pedants, for reasons
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