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bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
2 months ago by David Gerard to c/sneerclub
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you ask a hunter and not a deer.
The sad lens into their prevalent relationship with "correcting biases" being more about dominance in "trickery" rather than becoming better people. (and also entrenched misogyny.)
Yep. Cf. the pervasive idea that the true fundamental purpose of intelligence is casting Persuasion spells.
One of the members of a "wizard rock" band later went on to be in an actually good band. But as far as I am aware, this has only happened once.
Wait until they discover the trash that Rowling wrote.
"snapewives"
I'm sorry, whatwives now?
Well that sent me on a dark rabbit hole...
(For those that didn't know, The author of Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness is a scam artist and a cult leader. I knew that part already, but what I didn't knowwas how big the cult was at it's peak or that it was tied to a murder-suicide in 2011...)
And of course, sneerclubbers should know by now about the HPMOR to Lesswrong to Cult pipeline. (With MAPLE, Zizians and Leverage Research as most clearly cult examples. Dragon Army and Vassar's circle as cult-adjacent).
I know of this horror and it was incredibly unhinged by leaps and bounds. It confused me such a milquetoast character...Had that kind of thing grow around them. ROFL
There are so many connections between all these people and big events/culture war stuff that I jokingly start calling myself a conspiracy theorist when I start explaining these things.
(See how you can go from Jason Arday to LW in 3 steps. Arday to the racist Cofnas, who is in a picture with Moldbug who was popularized using lesswrong).
It's acessible via skylib:
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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@awful.systems
Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
See our twin at Reddit
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I have an ATProto login and am skimming the threads before I have to go and do other stuff for a few hours. I came across a link to this podcast, which looks interesting. The transcript of the first episode (I'm more of a reader than a listener) barely gets going before (content warning for sexual assault by intoxication) this:
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