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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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Effective Obfuscation (newsletter.mollywhite.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Molly White is best known for shining a light on the silliness and fraud that are cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3. This essay may be a sign that she's shifting her focus to our sneerworthy friends in the extended rationalism universe. If so, that's an excellent development. Molly's great.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For example, the inaugural Substack post defining effective accelerationisms’s “principles and tenets” name-drops the “Jarzynski-Crooks fluctuation dissipation theorem”

To echo a comment from old!SneerClub: That's not a thing. There are three separate but related ideas (the Crooks fluctuation theorem, the Jarzynski equality and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem) which the author doesn't know are separate, because he hasn't a clue what he's talking about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

got a link to it btw?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A link to what?

(The link in the Substack post is to the Wikipedia page for the Crooks result, disguising — intentionally or not — the fact that the writer is just smashing together science words.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the apparently original e/acc post, i think i've seen it but can't find it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Seems like it's this: https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-tenets

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that's it — it's the one Timnit Gebru linked to back in February which prompted the old!SneerClub discussion I mentioned, and Molly White's newsletter links to the same place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I found this earlier one, which it cites as its source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220602164803/https://swarthy.substack.com/p/effective-accelerationism-eacc?s=r

All that's before that is these few guys throwing the term around on Twitter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is a fractal optimization algorithm that created life, intelligence, and every meta-organism we know.

I'm wanking at the speed of light / wanna make a meta-fractal brain out of you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

(Don't torture me now) I'm having such a productive time, I'm having a QALY!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@earthquake @dgerard I just read some of this and it made me substantially stupider

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's important to stretch before reading their stuff. A good stretch is to find the latest fad and argue how it's an addiction.

Then, afterwards, you need to cool off and detox. I recommend some Quake, but finding a new favorite album also works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

quake is still fucking awesome and the remasters of 1 and 2 are great for an impromptu steam deck lan party