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Rationalwiki users later voted to disaffiliate from the discord server for reasons largely unrelated to what I'm having flashbacks about.

Having flashbacks to the rationalwiki discord server

This is the girl who went off the rails and started posting about neoreaction, right?

I don't make the rules, so you'd have to consult whoever does make the rules. I'm not really sure who that is though

Anyone who buys an island is evil sorry I don't make the rules

The solution for people in extreme poverty with zero access to healthcare is to get them healthcare, not to boil oceans so that silicon valley people can get rich from giving them disastrously bad medical advice.

• Find a Community Health Centre in the USA
• Health Poverty Action
• Where There Is No Doctor

ChatGPT: not just useless, but worse than useless.

I would definitely make lots of extremely boring posts about old bands in a music sub. Hmmm, maybe it would be a bad idea....

Surely this is 3 or 4 different anti-gun control tropes all smashed together.

I had just been looking at their website or I wouldn't have caught it, lol.

I think Yeah Nah Pasaran have done some coverage of technofascism and TESCREAL.

You should definitely pitch a show. You could have an evil AI as a co-presenter.

In another forum I'm in, someone posted this article and asked if someone, anyone could understand it. I kept schtum.

3CR! You should pitch a Sneer Club show to them.

My answer to bike theft is to scrap all the cop cars and make the police ride bikes. After the 500th police bike theft you bet they'd find a solution

Eurgh!

Yeah, I'd seen one or two of his popular posts but I only became familiar with him and his whole deal after he died.

kontextmaschine

Isn't this what happened to that creepy bloke on Tumblr. Maybe all rationalist-adjacent bloggers eventually shit themselves to death after trying to fix their health problems with punishing exercise regimes and dodgy supplements.

Who could have predicted this except for everybody ! There's a reason none of these galt gulches ever get built.

My other kook-watching sneerhobby is Rod Dreher and there's been bleedthrough from him too! Strange bird, Vance...

Just found out from a screenshot in a tweet that Marc Aandreesen considers Nick Land to be some kind of patron saint of "techno-optimism". Setting aside Land's ugly views about everything... I didn't think optimism was what he was known for. More like grasping, desperate, disgusted embrace of the onward march of capital.