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a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see
http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "
lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y
mircea_popescu: speaking of monstrosities like
http://btcbase.org/log/2015-01-31#999165 -- i suppose the deep driver of their unhappiness is precisely this, "1990s pedos made wikipedia seem like it's a big deal, and 2000s pedos made reddit seem like it's a big deal. why can't we 2010s pedos make
lesswrong/whatever pedo trading post seem like it's a big deal ?!!? god only knows we're the gays of a century ago, god-gifted with the only creativ
☝︎ mircea_popescu: well, "
lesswrong" included. dood's checked all the checkboxes. recovery should have been impossible, if one credits the "merituous recovery" theory of recovery.
Mocky: got to reading some
lesswrong stuff, made me think, eventually i rememberd how to think and realized i based my life on bullshit, so i blew it all up
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you recall, the thing that got all the inept "science" press hot and bothered in the 80s, and nosnense such as hal 9000 / space odissey etc (ie, the first iteration of "
lesswrong" wankery) was a demonstration by sussman & goode that "you can have artificial brains growing in the same way as real ones", ie, neural networks that algorithmically expand
mircea_popescu:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WX6kWkAKsESoD4yrf/misery-pits << o look who came back from the dead, also. chick famous for "i'll sign prenup to have all my kids paternity-checked because i'm just too much of a cum dumpster to know otherwise" / being the ~only sexually active female in this coven of "polyamory", absent since the last time we heard of this whole thing.
mircea_popescu: hoooooly shit is the wikitard "
lesswrong" crowd the comedy goldmine of all tiem
a111: Logged on 2018-04-05 20:12 mircea_popescu: this is such a direct equivalent of yesterday's ballistic-gellatin wank it's starting to draw out a profile (for what i previously called the wikitard, but i guess
lesswrong is just a particularily thick cloud of them) : asocial beta male that has managed to move the conceptual universe of cartoons into "real life" such as they live it.
mircea_popescu: this is such a direct equivalent of yesterday's ballistic-gellatin wank it's starting to draw out a profile (for what i previously called the wikitard, but i guess
lesswrong is just a particularily thick cloud of them) : asocial beta male that has managed to move the conceptual universe of cartoons into "real life" such as they live it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eh, what, walk me throiugh this. let's use
lesswrong codex as a basis. so : 1. you are in the hospital for "maybe wanting to kill yourself", after having made ill advised 1970s comments to 2010s paki diversity-"doctor" ; 2. "I remember working with a doctor who wanted to discharge his patient to some kind of outpatient drug rehab. The patient refused to go, so the doctor wouldn’t discharge her, and they were i
a111: Logged on 2018-04-04 04:49 mircea_popescu: in other lulz, /me joins #
lesswrong. there's a "* Loaded log from Sat Sep 20 11:53:02 2014" ; then /me joins #startups. there's a "Loaded log from Sat Sep 20 11:52:17 2014". apparently... i did this once before ?
mircea_popescu: aaand closing channels. #
lesswrong is spectacularily retarded. i mean wikitardia levels of inane wank. #clojure and #bash are mostly dead, 99% join/part and the rest hi guise, i got a dumb question. startup and gaygeeks are dead.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, /me joins #
lesswrong. there's a "* Loaded log from Sat Sep 20 11:53:02 2014" ; then /me joins #startups. there's a "Loaded log from Sat Sep 20 11:52:17 2014". apparently... i did this once before ?
☟︎ trinque: whole thing begs you to believe socialism will last long enough to create that fat
lesswrong pig's basilisk nightmares
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 14:10 kanzure: phf: that sounds like something else. the
lesswrong folx are moron navelgazers. yes it makes sense to "use thinking" but not if the output is just a pile of ponyfic and fearmogering.
kanzure: phf: that sounds like something else. the
lesswrong folx are moron navelgazers. yes it makes sense to "use thinking" but not if the output is just a pile of ponyfic and fearmogering.
☟︎ phf: my impression is all that
lesswrong, rationalwiki, yudkowsky, etc. is basically mentat wiki that took itself seriously.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 14:51 mircea_popescu: but the invisible line that unites curtis yarvin, that "
lesswrong" derp, spandrell fellow, the restaurant manager chick yesterday, and on and on an endless list of these, is specifically that they welded the head shut.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see
http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "
lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y
mircea_popescu: and i'd just as well like to have it well exposed and catalogued to bitchslap the gwern-ish wikipedia/
lesswrong/niceonline beta bois and assorted imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: but the invisible line that unites curtis yarvin, that "
lesswrong" derp, spandrell fellow, the restaurant manager chick yesterday, and on and on an endless list of these, is specifically that they welded the head shut.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2015-03-20 03:35 mircea_popescu: "Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment that assumes that an otherwise benevolent future artificial intelligence (AI) would torture the simulated selves of the people who did not help bring about the AI's existence. [...] The concept was proposed in 2010 by contributor Roko in a discussion on
LessWrong. Yudkowsky deleted the posts regarding it and banned further discussion of Roko's basilisk on
LessWrong af
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 18:21 gabriel_laddel: The
lesswrong people I've run into out the bay area all tacked on idiocies like "if someone had a really good betting run, then you would pay them to make decisions for you regarding your own life"
gabriel_laddel: The
lesswrong people I've run into out the bay area all tacked on idiocies like "if someone had a really good betting run, then you would pay them to make decisions for you regarding your own life"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: from "liberal" to "
lesswrong" and back again. the feminists wish REALLY HARD for some primitives they found to be supported by it. etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 02:57 mircea_popescu: e previous point, he's got a rationalist amulet to protect him from things!), but also i notice - that
lesswrong thing is essentially dead, isn't it ? one wiki edit (his), "0 points" throughout whatever that may mean, recent posts nobody cares about, latest diary from February, 5-th most recent blog from last month etc etc. i thought there were many idiots in this thing, turns out it's just a handful of derps that meanwhile f
mircea_popescu: e previous point, he's got a rationalist amulet to protect him from things!), but also i notice - that
lesswrong thing is essentially dead, isn't it ? one wiki edit (his), "0 points" throughout whatever that may mean, recent posts nobody cares about, latest diary from February, 5-th most recent blog from last month etc etc. i thought there were many idiots in this thing, turns out it's just a handful of derps that meanwhile f
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/9p9/open_thread_february_114_2012/5v6g << i followed this link off the guy's page ; turned out to be exactly as worthless as expected (take the most glaringly obvious point - he protests that polyamory practitioners are rich powerful valuable people [which he can't confront so he has to mangle up in terms of skin color etc, which doesn't make him a racist because rationalism or whatever, t
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's not JUST into
lesswrong, wikipedia, bla bla. he's also convinced "darknet" is relevant in general, that a bunch of inept shitheads were "a cryptoanarchist revolution" and, wonder of wonders, that the pill poppers had some sort of impact in bitcoin whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: never has math been so cruelly raped as it has been since the web 2,0 made these shits fashionable (
lesswrong, medium, tedtalks, the "webayesian" approach to pseudoscience and so forth).
mircea_popescu: i suppose i got to ask
lesswrong, they seem to know all sortsa shit about how shit that doesn't exist works.
poli_: No idea. I stopped following
Lesswrong a while back.
mircea_popescu: "Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment that assumes that an otherwise benevolent future artificial intelligence (AI) would torture the simulated selves of the people who did not help bring about the AI's existence. [...] The concept was proposed in 2010 by contributor Roko in a discussion on
LessWrong. Yudkowsky deleted the posts regarding it and banned further discussion of Roko's basilisk on
LessWrong after it had
☟︎ poli_: I know
lesswrong all to well.
mircea_popescu: Poor, misguided random internet person- your donation to MIRI/
LessWrong will not help save the world. Even if you grant all their (rather silly) assumptions MIRI is a horribly unproductive research institute- in more than a decade, it has published fewer peer reviewed papers than the average physics graduate student does while in grad school."
punkman: there is the
LessWrong crowd, and the guy that left to make MoreRight
decimation: reddit is kinda like a
lesswrong for retards
mircea_popescu: it's funny how the history of that thing went. it was about as retarded as
lesswrong, originally, a sort of obscure livejournal clone populated by worthless shut-ins (which doesn't mean alkl shut-ins are worthless).
mircea_popescu: johntraveller isn't the
lesswrong crowd flamingly libtard ?
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: interesting. I would say the most active pre-existing groups (in order of size) were the manosphere guys, the HBD/white nationalist bloggers, the ‘orthosphere’ (a bunch of catholic bloggers), the
lesswrong crowd
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2014 16:13:23; mircea_popescu: anyway, if it's anything like this dude, it'd basically
lesswrong/meatballswiki/somethingawful hivemind. unemployable graduates with fixed if erroneous ideas "about the world"
mircea_popescu: anyway, if it's anything like this dude, it'd basically
lesswrong/meatballswiki/somethingawful hivemind. unemployable graduates with fixed if erroneous ideas "about the world"
☟︎ decimation: I think that this guy hangs out with the
lesswrong crowd too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the guy is a 65 lb environmentalist vegan artist with a lot of etsy success, on
lesswrong and patronize or w/e that donation site is.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> '
lesswrong' would be a harmless heathen pit if not for the inescapable fact that it is a tarpit for a good number of otherwise intelligent folks << this is a major problem in search for a solution.
moriarty: at least formally i have worked in the field of AI and have come across
lesswrong in my past
xmj: i've been in #
lesswrong for months
moriarty:
lesswrong.com typical profile is someone who has fallen between the cracks of society so typically someone without formal education, self-proclaimed didact, home-schooled, etc
xmj: asciilifeform: yeah,
lesswrong.com...
moriarty: mircea_popescu,
lesswrong is filled with people who have fallen between the cracks of society
assbot:
Lesswrong is a weird place. I can read an awesome, insightful article one moment... | Hacker News
decimation: mircea_popescu: re:
lesswrong they push that 'hard-ai' bullshit pretty hard
pankkake: the guys using it love bets in general (
lesswrong/overcomingbias community)
pankkake: it's mostly guys from
lesswrong.com so way above the average bitcointalker
smickles: pigeons: was that a
lesswrong refrence?
smickles: hmm, i wonder how much of the information in his book is on
lesswrong.com, and whether it would be worth buying since that site is free to use