that time Scott told the rationalists how adderall would turn them into geniuses of finance and even named specific rationalists he thought should get into adderall

Raining Man - 70,000 trapped by mud at Burning Man 2023. Pray for the techbros

Calling for indefinite moratorium on lab-grown meat development

Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.”

that time the rationalists decided that I, personally, was why anyone called them a "cult", and not, say, anything they said or did themselves

It's a tragedy that I cannot explore my fascination with white supremacy using Chat-GPT4

I am extremely curious what the general take around here is on the Singulairty

In which Scott (other Scott) can't imagine why committing a crime would lead him to be treated (gasp) like a criminal

‘Before its too late buddy’: A Code Red Warning about TESCREALism

Sneerquence Classic: "Shut up and do the impossible!" (ironic in hindsight given the doomerism)

LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame”

I genuinely hate decision theory.

this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong

you need way too much familiarity with the rationalist subculture to appreciate this one fully, but my goodness this moderation notice

Yudkowsky advises his fellow Effective Altruists to take the FTX money and run. For the sake of charity, you understand.

i guess sneerclub must just hate understanding things. yes, that must be it.

Grimes sitting there with two phones trying for 200 likes

Yud goes full seed oil-ist

I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle