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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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yes scott we know you are (scottaaronson.blog)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

"I'm a rationalist because they let me put "quantum computer scientist (not physicist) who's always right (despite the suffering of fools)" on my nametag"

So what does the name of his blog stand for?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

The name of his blog was a reference that he thinks he was born in the wrong time, because in Shtetls people of his clear high intelligence would be assigned a wife (and get high social status).

Here is Sneerclub talking about it a while back. Dec 2022 is apparently 2 years ago for reddit.

E: Do note I can't recall where he wrote about this, so I might be misremembering, or taking what we said in hyperbole about it for the real thing.

E2: unrelated to the blog name, I did think of incels/untitled/this kind of stuff like the troubles of lonely nerds/NDs not getting dating and going to the wrong places when I read the last part of this question Dr NerdLove answered, the 'to be perfectly blunt' part. And just how common the 'you can't be mad at me now' thing is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

This appears to be the explainer: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=476 , also referenced here: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5769

Edit: bonus cursed findings: https://web.archive.org/web/20071006184928/http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=260

why do we, as a society, provide food stamps for the hungry but not sex stamps for the celibate?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

this is low hanging fruit but: yeah absolutely rancid takes on the middle east from scootson. who would have thought he would produce such nuance-free, fascist opinions about geopolitics?

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