Soyweiser

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IQ maximalism is going great - ooops, turns out Raven's Progressive Matrices was just a personality test in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Wonder if anybody has already informed r/slatestarcodex

Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Our previous gov in .nl also tried to oush nuclear, but first they had to do a location study (which have already been done in the past, and for some added hilarity, our incompetent farmers party didn't know you needed rivers near those plants), but even if those were really redone and not just a stalling tactic, they already couldn't find a company willing to build one.

And after our gov fell we are all back to square one now. Esp as I think forming a new gov will take forever again. Esp with the rightward shift of so many parties. (Our labour green party and our center right (but people think they are center left) party are now considered far left)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I saw (because for some reason grokipedia is now high in google search) that grok calls Roko (from rokos basilisk) pseudo anonymous, but isnt he just using full name and face on twitter? Such a weird small error (and change to the Wikipedia page). Didnt click the link obv.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

He will train a neural network on GM games, then memorize the algorithm and compute the moves in his head.

The Rationalists.

Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

I dont smurf any of this.

Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Guess who gave money to MIRI in 2009

Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Ow god im a fool, totally read over what that meant. Thanks, jesus fuck (and to think I mentioned the animal rights people).

Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

Also just a very bad cult recruitment pitch.

Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Didnt the zizians also literally protest one of his events and got arrested for that? Or was that a different group they were protesting. Seems weird to not look them up at all. Very 'ideological turing test' failure levels.

Also funny that his logic would mean he doesnt look into Nelson Mandela.

E: also iffy he tosses the animal rights people (partially) under the bus for no reason. EA animal rights will love that.

Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hello Yud this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to keep posting this shit

Dril jokes aside, posting this towards a deathcult who maximize reactions to imagined threats seems like a bad idea. Thankfully I think the zizians are gone as a cult. (I mean arent they in jail)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lol check how bad openai is doing (also so much grok ow god this will end up horrible) https://openrouter.ai/rankings. In public transport atm so dont have much time for a bigger look but interesting if somebody would put this next to valuations (also not deepseek which nobody seems to talk about anymore, dont think the pivot to 'roleplay' will work for openai)

The site is clearly vibe coded as it runs like ass on my phone

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The Rationality Trap (archive.is)
 

Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

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Move over TESCREAL, R9PRESENTATIONALism is here. (archive.is)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
46 comments fedilink
 

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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Embryo selection, thinking about risk the wrong way: What we talk about when we talk about risk. (archive.is)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
9 comments fedilink
 

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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Death and the Gorgon - Greg Egan (asimovs.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

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Eliezer complements Musk, Musk negs Eliezer (nitter.net)
 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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