I think he is trying to say something like “non-zero skew”, but really, he just means “I subscribe to race science, but only for the articles”.

TracingWoodgrains seems to have developed, in the process of leaving mormonism, an obsession with seeking out contrarianism. But more importantly, he openly admits to being racist/HBD “align[s] broadly with informed experts that the distribution of genetic traits associated with intelligence is non-zero” and “questions of genetics and IQ, including when it comes to group differences, are worth taking seriously”. As such, he only considers it “racism” if it’s “racial crassness and antagonism”.

• https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1al4rui/premium_episode_the_faas_bizarre_diversity/kqfo5dp/

In which TW names who he thinks is treating the topic with the seriousness it demands without sinking to crassness: our good good friend Cremieux.

Absolutely magnificent that this guy took a break from posting about OLED WLAN DNS SKU TCL and 800 ISO without bokah at like f/16 to come in here and chastise us for using in-group terms.

From the comments: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/34pz6ni3muwPnenLS/why-so-many-racists-at-manifest?commentId=8KrQz3wcdHiDL2YfH

Trying to imagine what would a mirror universe Musk gets up to. I think any level of notoriety for him inevitably ends in execution after some failed palace intrigue.

Crumplar is STILL writing about this loser crowd. Why? What led him to this?

Lot of “culture war” red meat references thrown in there, and they still didn’t go for it? Alas.

Why would you restrict your criticism to within borders that you regard as illegitimate? I think the best way to not endorse territorial sovereignty would be to ignore those borders as much as possible.

Almost 900 words to say, poorly, “It was just a joke (but not really)”. The short tweets feel like they’re designed for traction, but of course EY falls back on ponderous beigeness when he gets pushback.

Oh shit, I guess the rationalists are starting to figure out that sneerclub moved!

Every sneer is one transphobic act suppressed in fear.

https://nitter.net/koksvik/status/1741698756301791600 (original on twitter)

Mr PhD in philosophy here thinks it’s not Singer’s problem if his partners tell their partners of affairs with Singer.

On this personal site, https://www.koksvik.net/, I find this:

Papers Under Review

‘Benefiting from Epistemic Injustice’

Hmm.

Then you throw out all the hard parts of the question like:
Then you ignore all of history

Seems to me that this is all swimming in the same water as End of History and anti-politics: defining humans and humanity out of the problem space, and insisting that in order to be taken seriously you must be focused only on productivity, good governance, and technological progress, the only problems.

These kinds of public errors are almost always a hard drive failure.

Guy with 4 wiki pages open, determined to win an argument, even if it means stacking shit until the other person stops responding.

A whole lot of violent death threats in that thread.

I’m still not convinced Hanabie was being ironic, but if so missing the satire is a core tradition of Sneer Club that I am keeping alive for future generations.

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It’s not very good at most of what it does

don’t think these systems are the useless toys

It’s excellent at what it does, which is create immense reams of spam, make the internet worse in profitable ways, and generate at scale barely sufficient excuses to lay off workers. Any other use case, as far as I’ve seen, remains firmly at the toy level.

But @GorillasAreForEating was talking about OpenAI, not just him.

Taking a step back… this is far removed from the point of origin: @Hanabie claims Sutskever specifically is “allowed to be weird” because he’s a genius. If we move the goalposts back to where they started, it becomes clear it’s not accurate to categorise the pushback as “OpenAI has no technical accomplishments”.

I ask that you continue to mock rationalists who style themselves the High Poobah of Shape Rotators, chanting about turning the spam vortex into a machine God, and also mock anyone who says it’s OK for them to act this way because they have a gigantic IQ. Even if the spam vortex is impressive on a technical level!

It’s important to stretch before reading their stuff. A good stretch is to find the latest fad and argue how it’s an addiction.

Then, afterwards, you need to cool off and detox. I recommend some Quake, but finding a new favorite album also works.