God I cannot believe that Harry Potter fanfiction is such a big part of Rationalism.
I made the mistake of reading too many comments down in a Reddit thread and a ephebophilepedophile showed up. I looked at their profile and was just totally blindsided by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfiction and it apparently being their second favorite book ever. I think their first was Lolita but I don’t remember.
I’ve heard that (maybe?) SBF had Harry Potter orgies, detailed on his girlfriend’s cryptofascist tradwife Tumblr blog. I know I shouldn’t but I kind of want to see if I can dig around the Internet Archive and find out how much of that really happened. Just making myself suffer for fun
I feel like the article ends pretty suddenly, but maybe that’s just because I can already imagine the next 30 pages of explaining TESCREAL bullshittery in my head
Not going to namedrop as I have no idea how involved and connected he is to all this
I totally will 😎
Robert Miles was my first heartbreaker. He seems like a great educator; I just like listening to him explaining things and talking about computer science. But damn it came as a shock to see he’s the narrator of a Rationalism for Kids cartoon series and is neck-deep in EA.
I don’t even want to watch that video because I know I’m going to get annoyed by it. Veritasium’s video on self-driving cars was so awful, it was enough for me to just sort them into the Sketchy Pop-Sci YouTube Channels bucket for good. I’ve heard that their videos on electricity and that one physics bet were also pretty shaky.
18+ Meeting IRL with area sneerers?
Hi all....
Eliezer complements Musk, Musk negs Eliezer (nitter.net)
Some light sneerclub content in these dark times....
The rise of the new tech right (archive.ph)
Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.
Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear
original post detailing mistreatment of employees...
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)
Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.