overview for hrrrngh

Meeting IRL with area sneerers? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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

A Minecraft server, a Discord channel, and maybe a Matrix server all bridged together would be really goofy and I'm all for it

Eliezer complements Musk, Musk negs Eliezer in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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 ~~ephebophile~~pedophile 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

Andrew Plotkin’s Interactive Fiction in c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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

Oh wow it's been awhile since I last saw that article, that's a fun find. I have a weird soft spot for Inform 6+

Reminds me a little of the "XYZZYing the Technical Interview" series of blog posts (reversing, hexing, typing, rewriting, and unifying)

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.