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Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not going to namedrop as I have no idea how involved and connected he is to all this

I totally will 😎

Robert Miles was my first heartbreaker. He seems like a great educator; I just like listening to him explaining things and talking about computer science. But damn it came as a shock to see he's the narrator of a Rationalism for Kids cartoon series and is neck-deep in EA.

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

I don't even want to watch that video because I know I'm going to get annoyed by it. Veritasium's video on self-driving cars was so awful, it was enough for me to just sort them into the Sketchy Pop-Sci YouTube Channels bucket for good. I've heard that their videos on electricity and that one physics bet were also pretty shaky.

hacker news is on a transhumanist roll today: cryonics and metaphysics in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not falling for Freezerburn's Wager a third time

Literally every argument about AI risk is entirely made up. All the terminology is just fart-huffing. It has the same evidentiary basis as a story about floopflorps on Gavitron9 outcompeting Nuubidon in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 2 points 2 years ago

Old post but one of my favorite things on here is seeing people you recognize tearing apart TESCREAL garbage