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.
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.
hello, my name is David Gerard and I caused the downfall of Twitter and hence Reddit
Thank you. I’m 4grams, and I appreciate it.
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
For the record
AI Safety: [...] Not woke. Spans across political spectrum.
yeah right
Hi, it took me 5 months to join, but here I am from /r/sneerclub.
hi, another lurker from reddit here. maybe i'll try posting this time around
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 :)
Oh hey, did I ever actually post here? No? Whoops.
I blame the ghosts in between the machines.
Hi, I'm Blake, physicist and procrastinator.
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 ✨️
welcome back!
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.
be here or be sneer, i guess
i sort of depend on this community to not go insane working in tech, so i'm happy it's continuing
i'd restart techtakes here except only a very few read it on reddit either lol
I really like sneering at hn posts and I always wished techtakes had more traffic. I’m not sure how to swing it from a community growth standpoint (at least til we federate) but there’s always room for more sneer communities here
I am, as it were, calling from the future. Acausally.
Hi everyone. I’m Steve and I am hoping for a judgment-free sneer club
oh no, there's going to be a ton of judgement, possibly up to and including lightning bolts
don’t forget eternal, acausal torture
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.
i know right? IT WAS RIGHT THERE
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.
* the tilde
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.
I was just about over my withdrawal symptoms from reddit, and now this comes along. Thanks a lot, you bastards.
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.
hello; i'm here to sneer and complain. i have many hobbies that i don't pursue and a mastodon.
I still haven't decided where I'll try to make my home/primary instance for usage.
Hii, just one more simulated existence added to the pool!
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.
Welcome! Maybe you’ll be interested in out MoreWrite sub too
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.
What is the side bar here supposed to mean, like at all?
what do you mean?
Go read it. I have no idea what any of it means. I know what treacle means in the context of desserts, but not as a group of people. NSFW is obviously being changed to mean something specific, but no context is given for the change. The whole side bar is like one inside joke that doesn't make sense to anyone visiting, but you've got a post here welcoming new to say hi with no explanation as to what the community us about. Visitors are given no context, and I can't tell what any of the posts have to do with each other.
So, I guess, I meant exactly what I asked the first time.
Found this on all, immediately blocking the dumpster fire.
