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The rise of the new tech right in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

The descriptions are already perfect

The rise of the new tech right in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

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

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 in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am so lost on what even happened there. Was that at the peaceful protest where they were surrounded by police?

I went digging through some old threads on sneerclub and came away more confused than I started

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 in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

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.