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Let's walk through the uncanny valley with SBF so we can collapse some wave functions together(hachyderm.io)

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Rationalist check-list:

  1. Incorrect use of analogy? Check.
  2. Pseudoscientific nonsense used to make your point seem more profound? Check.
  3. Tortured use of probability estimates? Check.
  4. Over-long description of a point that could just have easily been made in 1 sentence? Check.

This email by SBF is basically one big malapropism.

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dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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How can anyone take a fanfic writer seriously.

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maol@awful.systems
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I used to read fanfiction, and by the standards of Harry Potter fanfiction, it’s not even good fanfiction.

(insert “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” joke here)

Maybe it’s just a matter of taste, but I couldn’t get through more than a chapter. I wonder if most of the audience for it were people who didn’t normally read fanfiction. Actually, I just looked it up on fanlore to see what fandom people have said about it, and the reviews are mixed…

“I read it longer than I planned to because I kept expecting it to turn into Harry/Draco slash […] But then I realized the author was just a weird neckbeard who had some kind of strange Draco fixation but was probably not going to make them go gay. Also it was just a really bad fic.”

Lots of gold in there. Apparently Eliezer was bullied by a Harry Potter fan forum, to the point that some of the users set up a blog called “Methods of Rationality sucks”.

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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Apparently Eliezer was bullied by a Harry Potter fan forum, to the point that some of the users set up a blog called “Methods of Rationality sucks”.

His reaction was where Sneerclub got its name

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gerikson@awful.systems
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That quote has always been mildly amusing but learning it’s from a fanfic beef makes it hilarious.

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maol@awful.systems
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And people gave this man money. Lots of money. My God.

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Deborah@hachyderm.io
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maol@awful.systems
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With the amount of lies, scams, cults and frauds that have been perpetuated in online fandoms, particularly big ones like Harry Potter, I suppose HP fans could spot a cult leader at 10 paces. They certainly had Yudkowsky’s number pretty quickly

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dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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It’s as if /r/iamverysmart sat down to write it. So clearly it’s Eliezer self-inserting himself into a children’s book as a Jimmy Neutron wannabe and trying to pass is as a legitimate improvement.

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wallabra 🇧🇷@bark.lgbt
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@dingleberry @sinedpick At least fanfic writesr are not Yudkowsky fanboys.

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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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