SneerClub

982 readers

9 users here now

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.]

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

a quick supercut of garbage Scott Alexander takes for your sneering convenience:

I bet the billionaires who have donated the majority of their fortune to the cause also enjoy being told it's just so they can get a few percent tax break.

does anyone have the slightest idea what Scott’s talking about here? cause I feel like I’d have heard of a billionaire donating most of their money to any cause, unless my intuition’s right and scott’s playing with words pretending that treating a non-profit as a piggy bank somehow isn’t possible or common

I am of the opinion that most billionaires are good and have nothing to whitewash. But even aside from that, this is the worst possible way to whitewash money. If you spend your money on a yacht, people say "cool yacht".

I… I don’t have words for this one actually, the sneers write themselves

"Doesn't actually do selfless things with the money" - can you explain how this works? My impression is if your foundation spends money on yachts or mansions for yourself, that's plain tax fraud.

a bunch of folks in the thread and the original podcast have already explained exactly how this works, Scott, and it’s also kinda fucking obvious, but I guess don’t let that stop you from JAQing off about it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@self @dgerard Wanna bet Scott didn't listen to the podcast before he wrote these replies?

Also note that this post fails their own moderation rules. it isn't true nor kind (they admit their reaction is in bad faith), and it is according to them culture war shit. I wonder if you were to post this podcast and said you agreed with it if your post would be removed due to culture war.

(Also wow Scotts replies are so bad, layers of strawmen and misunderstanding of the lefts arguments)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well technically, there’s no culture war thread on the subreddit anymore, so all of the culture war rules they had to invent to contain the culture war they started in part by inventing a series of culture war rules which constantly fed the flames of culture war are irrelevant, since when there’s no culture war thread to quarantine the culture war it’s fine to wage culture war elsewhere (and if you took away culture war, what would be the point of either the sub or its inspiring author?)

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

@YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM And they have not even updated their rules after all those years. Prob because parts of the rules come from 'The Rightful Caliph' himself, and well can't change them without divine guidance about what to do about the themotte/cw problem.

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

@YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM (My joke about the 'The Rightful Caliph' doesn't come from sneerclub btw, it was actually what some of the Rationalists said about Scott when he became more popular than Yudkowsky)

load more comments (7 replies)