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JohnBierce @ JohnBierce @awful.systems
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shocked to see crypto shit the bed again - massive DeFi supply chain attack draining wallets across multiple tokens because someone got into hardware wallet support software

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  • But the laughter it brings us?

    Priceless.

    • Holy shit, it could not be getting any dumber, Effective altruist philosopher defends longtermism from critics who deny utilitarian principles.... With utilitarian principles.

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  • I've spent way too many pages of my books making fun of utilitarians to stop now lol.

    • Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars

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  • Even Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.

    • Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder.

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  • Goddamnit I wish I'd intended that pun

    • Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder.

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  • Yeah, there's absolutely a place for arguments that aren't full-bore "capitalism is evil, forward the revolution!" Some people need to be eased into that space, and articles like this, that show how fundamentally stupid and terrible Musk and company are, are a great way to get people to start asking HOW dingbats like that got power. And it's not the longest journey from there to questioning whether something is wrong with the system itself.

    (There are failure states, of course- namely, reinforcing the neoliberal idea that if you just put better people in charge of a system, it will work better. But that's a question of execution, not of tactical validity.)

    • Meeting IRL with area sneerers?

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  • Somehow, I doubt there's many other sneerers in Hanoi, but you never know...

    • Urbit Assembly Lisboa trip report: paranoid hallucinations, logorrhea

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  • Oh gross

    • Urbit Assembly Lisboa trip report: paranoid hallucinations, logorrhea

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  • As a non-tech person who has zero idea what Urbit is, this is still deeply funny to me.

    I'm guessing there's probably a libertarian bent to this whole thing, somehow?

    • our new piece on SBF gets stuck into the rationalists

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  • Seldom have I seen anyone who has drunk their own kool-aid deeper than SBF.

    • Dan Olson back at it with another banger. HN responds about as you'd expect.

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  • Oh heck yeah new Dan Olson

    • Croatia shutters a libertarian paradise, orange site readers have a sad

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  • The full book is well worth the read, imho.

    • Croatia shutters a libertarian paradise, orange site readers have a sad

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  • You should check out the book A Libertarian Walks into a Bear for another great example, if you haven't already!

    • Super casual conversation about Eugenics

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  • Uggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

    • Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

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  • Solid post, already shared this a few times.

    • a scrawny nerd in a basement writes

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  • ...The vast majority of guys I know who have been in a lot of fights (me included) are quite happy never getting in a fight again? Like, there's definitely a few weirdos and dudes with anger issues who love fighting, but the shine wears off pretty damn quick for most people, and they'd rather avoid the fight in the first place? I really don't think real-life arenas and duels would work the way this guy thinks.

    (I used to work as a bouncer in a bar, haven't been in a fight since then, I prefer keeping it that way. Also, fair notice, I wasn't actually a very good fighter- I was the average-sized, unintimidating bouncer, my job was to head off fights before they happened, so the bigger bouncers and bartenders didn't have to intervene, and I was good at talking drunks down. I wrestled a decent number of drunks when I had to, but that did not an impressive fighter make, I'd suck at Colosseum fights, lol.)

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Thank you!

    I actually have some thoughts about that topic as well- could be an interesting thread! (I personally think that we are, at least to a small extent, similar dynamic-wise to the cult survivor networks that help their friends and family escape the cult they themselves escaped- after all, a huge number of us are former Rationalists or, like myself, narrowly escaped their gravitational pull. Kinda puts a weird twist on our relationship to the Rationalists. Doesn't make us immune from transitioning from "unkind critics" to something worse, especially if we were to start brigading or something else awful, but I think has some valuable social lessons for the group?)

    • If you've made it here from the outer reaches, comment and say hi

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  • 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.