Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
https://less.online/ - they couldnāt be bothered to write the 5 lines of js to do their karma discount automatically
āA Festival of Writers Who are Wrong on the Internetā
How is it possible to be so thoroughly immune to self-reflection.
Vampires?
Why is Patrick McKenzie attending this, I wonder?
Seeing Cremieux Recueil will be there, does anyone know whoās behind it, whatās the deal with it, etc? Iām always seeing it pop up on these freaksā timelines and I imagine itās eugenics shit but I can never be bothered to dig enough to find the really incriminating stuff. Itās well creepy though.
Hosting entity appears to be at the bottom:
Could start digging from there
Lightcone are the guys convinced they will save the future of humanity by writing and hosting the LessWrong/EA forum code.
I am still curious about how well that belief will hold up under a couple hundred bucks of darknet services
Aha! It turns out Cremieux is the r/slatestarcodex poster formerly known as /u/TrāyPorn0 (slur dashed out), or TP0 for those who donāt even want the slur in dashed-out form. A really persistent race scientist with a habit of (a) misrepresenting the papers he spammed as links (b) misrepresenting himself. He used to run a tiny blog as āCremieuxā when he was claiming to be an economist from Liechtenstein. Then he got pumped by the other race scientists. So I expect this to very much be Racist Fest.
some past hits from TP0:
his style is gish gallops and paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims, and citing Emil Kirkegaardās pseudojournals a lot
Googling the blog name brings up this delightful interview
https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/bad-science-vs-based-science-cremieux
Ah yes, anonymity, a cornerstone of the scientific method.
Wow amazing, thank you. What a sicko.
Hereās another good one: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12qbsfo/tpo_has_joined_twitter_been_tweeted_by_paul/
My favorite tp0 moment was when someone pointed out the identical twins in an adoption study he cited were barely separated, and tp0 blocked him and left the original chart using data from the study up.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12qbsfo/tpo_has_joined_twitter_been_tweeted_by_paul/jgr8sxv/
frequent ACX commenter, Here he is on IQ and genes Very into citing OpenPsych as solid gold scientific fact. Race scientist, yes.
Wow, I knew what I was in for but god thatās unpleasant.
Ahh, see, racism is just more intellectually convenient.
That āonly show authors confirmed comingā button. Wtf lol.
Surprised and a bit disappointed to see patio11 attending. Gwern isnāt though, lol.
Iām a bit surprised to see his name. I read āSeeing like a bankā and snippets of a few other blogposts, he didnāt come off as a ghoul
itāll be interesting to see his reaction to the room full of race scientists. I wonder how well they can hide their power level.
suspicion: this is a recruitment event, and a lot of people might try to be on their best obfuscatory behaviour
I have my own thoughts on the guy, but I figured Iād send a mail and ask about his reasons. letās see I guess
A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.
Wait what she is also attending? Wait, no of course she is, and also lol.
preview:
reality:
āhow to inflate your event by pretending thereās more to itā (tbh i wouldnāt mind if esr would inflict his pleasant personality on that crowd; and of course the renowned philosopher agnes callard will attend)
Yeah that was exactly what I meant amazing bullshit
ESR hasnāt blogged for ages,no? I believe his old blog was offline for a long time because lack of TLS/backup or something.
It got a malware infection and nobody bothered fixing it. By the end its commenters were enjoying long threads entirely composed of dogwhistles.
Wildbow: āyou know the Empire 88 and the biotinkers were bad guys in Worm rightā
Wtf? Itās like they made a sex offenders list, just nothing but libertarians and racists