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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello, lurker from ye olde sneerclubbe. So glad to see this place continue! Huge source of comfort when I broke with the rat community after realising how crazy cultish they are—thanks sneeple ✨️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

welcome back!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hi. I’m new to Sneer Club. Only realized what the Reddit community was about a few days ago. I never visited the Less Wrong site back in its era of high activity. I had a friend who told me about it, the Harry Potter fanfic, and I guess the Sequences, but it all seemed like a massively low return on time investment, and the self-important mission to save humanity from Unfriendly AI also sounded kooky and like some kind of self-perpetuating bullshit.

(Aside: As for Slate Star Codex, I probably never read a single piece all the way through. The guy just meanders incessantly, and to this day, I’m amazed any readers could keep doing that to themselves.)

This all brings me some sadness, as I deeply value critical thinking and rationalism (Who tells themselves that they don’t?), and as annoying as that community was, and their diaspora in the effective altruist milieu is today, given that the world seems to be ever more irrational, rationalism-minded people and movements, IMO, are dearly needed.

Lately though I’ve been fascinated by how for all the skills that community worked to instill itself with, it didn’t wind up insulating itself from imploding into its own irrationalism.

Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to join this community and to all the people that put it together and maintain it.

Yudkowsky is Dr. Lucas Elliot from the 1990s MTV cartoon The Head.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hello, my name is David Gerard and I caused the downfall of Twitter and hence Reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I’m 4grams, and I appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

it me from sneerclub

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lurker. SC helped ensure I didn't fully enter the rabbithole of LW/rationalists/SSC, which is good because literally just the relatively short exposure I had to their nonsense has had lasting effects on me. So yea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

hello! finally made it from an external instance!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Hi, I'm Mii (u/0xMii on Reddit), software dev and hobby artist. I was a lurker on old SneerClub and TechTakes and only recently found out they moved here. Glad to have it back, because with the current AI hype, the TESCREAL clowns creep in everywhere and I'm trying to maintain my sanity.

They almost got me and pulled me into their cult a few years back, but I luckily got out before it was too late.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was on the old reddit /r/sneerclub, same username. Finally making an account here. I will probably post a few sneequence classics that haven't been ~~discussed~~ mocked properly before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm John Bierce, cheesy fantasy novelist (both in the sense of writing cheesy books, and in the sense of being full of the literal dairy product), and I was on SneerClub (using various accounts) since around... 2019, 2020? I've missed it since it fled Reddit, especially with all the rampant, stupid AI hype and TESCREAL bullshit running rampant right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome! Maybe you’ll be interested in out MoreWrite sub too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll check it out!

[–] v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU 3 points 1 year ago

I still haven't decided where I'll try to make my home/primary instance for usage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been meaning to ask if Liv Boeree is on the radar. I'd seen her stuff recommended on YT and it seemed like innocuous sciencey stuff but instantly got the rationalist vibe. Then saw she was on Lex Fridman's podcast. Looked into her a bit (wikipedia) and she is indeed in the effective altruism world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Boeree

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

AI Safety: [...] Not woke. Spans across political spectrum.

yeah right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Greetings and salutations. I am a living breathing, systematic error.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah, SneerClub 2: the Sneerquel.

Swablr the Blue. That was my name. I am Swlabr the uncoloured. And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

* the tilde

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hi, I was a small-time poster and mostly-lurker on sneerclub. Good to find this place where I can follow the atrocity-documentation. PS does this mean I have joined the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just noticed this sticky. I'm here because nowhere else do people shit on Yudkowsky enough. Fuck that hack with a chainsaw, metaphorically of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

hi, another lurker from reddit here. maybe i'll try posting this time around

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hi, it took me 5 months to join, but here I am from /r/sneerclub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was just about over my withdrawal symptoms from reddit, and now this comes along. Thanks a lot, you bastards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hello. I've been a lurker in SneerClub for a year or so.

I've never been either a Yudkowsky-style rationalist or worked in the IT industry, but my whole life has been weirdly parallel to this sort of thing. And now that world has nurtured some of the worst A-list villainy of our times.

Yays. I'm still trying to work out precisely how deep the rot goes.

Favourite personal hate sinks include Scott Alexander, Richard Hanania, Robin Hanson, Steven Pinker, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and the thing that bought Twitter. I have a bad feeling these people are building an intellectual infrastructure for fascism more functional than anything the fascists could manage themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am, as it were, calling from the future. Acausally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@dgerard I used to like lurking on the old subreddit. Now the Lemmy posts occasionally show up in my Mastodon feed. Glad to see people are still sneering!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hi, and thanks for making this! Glad to continue sneering.

P.S. "TREACLES" is pretty clever, Emile Torres and Timnit Gebru should have gone with that instead of keeping it in chronological order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i know right? IT WAS RIGHT THERE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi, I'm Blake, physicist and procrastinator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hello! I'm Eric and I've been sneering for a year. Love, love, love this community because reading some of the misanthropic techno fash b.s. rat cult beliefs was making me big mad & big sad, but injecting sneers directly into my veins has inoculated me :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh hey, did I ever actually post here? No? Whoops.

I blame the ghosts in between the machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hello, I used to be Cavelcade, but that was in a different place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hello! \o_

I was an infrequent commenter at the old place (u/yawaster), usually when I got really annoyed about something TESCREAL related. I will probably also be an infrequent commenter here but I still need an occasional outlet for my sneer. Fair play for actually setting up an escape raft from Reddit rather than slinking back, the future of the useable/bearable web depends on people putting their money where their mouth is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hii, just one more simulated existence added to the pool!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi, everyone!

I wanted to create an astronomical number of accounts on behalf of all the people who didn't support the creation of this instance, just so they could be banned forever, but that wouldn't be very aligned of me.

Let's have fun sneering together until Yud nukes the server.

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