Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
someone re-invented email-threading. Itās billed as a way to have ālong and complex discussions.ā Their prototypical example? Yudās utterly pointless thoughts on imaginary scenarios conjured up by his immense brain. Orange site is skeptical and yearns for 4chan instead.
The feature I am looking forward to the most in comminication apps is having a machine learning model listen to those āquick callsā, generate summary and action items and post them right back in the thread. You get the benefits of both worlds that way.
Oh, you do, do you?
https://less.online/ - they couldnāt be bothered to write the 5 lines of js to do their karma discount automatically
Seeing Cremieux Recueil will be there, does anyone know whoās behind it, whatās the deal with it, etc? Iām always seeing it pop up on these freaksā timelines and I imagine itās eugenics shit but I can never be bothered to dig enough to find the really incriminating stuff. Itās well creepy though.
Hosting entity appears to be at the bottom:
Ben Pace & the team at Lightcone Infrastructure.
Could start digging from there
Lightcone are the guys convinced they will save the future of humanity by writing and hosting the LessWrong/EA forum code.
I am still curious about how well that belief will hold up under a couple hundred bucks of darknet services
Aha! It turns out Cremieux is the r/slatestarcodex poster formerly known as /u/TrāyPorn0 (slur dashed out), or TP0 for those who donāt even want the slur in dashed-out form. A really persistent race scientist with a habit of (a) misrepresenting the papers he spammed as links (b) misrepresenting himself. He used to run a tiny blog as āCremieuxā when he was claiming to be an economist from Liechtenstein. Then he got pumped by the other race scientists. So I expect this to very much be Racist Fest.
some past hits from TP0:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/9ypgfl/commenter_calls_hbd_junk_science_ssc_is_having/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/bje7oh/this_whole_exchange_is_gold/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/amna7n/we_know_nigerians_have_low_national_iq_because/
his style is gish gallops and paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims, and citing Emil Kirkegaardās pseudojournals a lot
Googling the blog name brings up this delightful interview
https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/bad-science-vs-based-science-cremieux
CrƩmieux was kind enough to grant me a podcast, where we covered all manor of things Based, from the IQ of the Ashkenazis, why the Vikings were violent, the effect of selection events, and the need for anonymity in Based science.
Ah yes, anonymity, a cornerstone of the scientific method.
Wow amazing, thank you. What a sicko.
Hereās another good one: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/12qbsfo/tpo_has_joined_twitter_been_tweeted_by_paul/
paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims
My favorite tp0 moment was when someone pointed out the identical twins in an adoption study he cited were barely separated, and tp0 blocked him and left the original chart using data from the study up.
frequent ACX commenter, Here he is on IQ and genes Very into citing OpenPsych as solid gold scientific fact. Race scientist, yes.
Wow, I knew what I was in for but god thatās unpleasant.
Thereās no clearly-articulated theory of cultural regression to the mean, but there is a genetic one, and it is consistent with the results.
Ahh, see, racism is just more intellectually convenient.
