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CinnasVerses

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • I like to keep my analysis separate from my word-magic (making things happen by saying them). Greer is trying to remake the world and not just work up his courage which is a harmless and consensual form of word-magic.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • Yes, skeptics classed Alcor and cryonics with homeopathy and Bigfoot. American skeptics had a Libertariam wing but I have not heard of Michael Shermer visiting Lighthaven.

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  • The biggest crossover between skeptics and rationalists I can think of is Julia Galef, and she podcasted with a philosopher who debated Yud once then decided it was infra dignitatem. She also dropped out of CFAR when it became more open that the rationality workshops were for finding Sarah Connor.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • I don't think that the Rats are an offshoot of the Skeptics and New Atheists just a space which competed for the same young, male, educated, Autistic Anglo audience. They deliberately removed the parts of the skeptic curriculum which involve introspection and ethnography, because they all wanted to run some grift on their audiences so the audiences needed poor epistemic hygiene.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • I also don't get it because they already hate pre-social-media institutions, so why are they still angry that American journalists were bad at transmitting public health science at the beginning of COVID? Even if you believe in a COVID lab leak, the United States broke the global public health response while countries in East Asia and the South Pacific showed what to do. There are lab-leakers who blame a partnership between traitorous American scientists and sinister Chinese labs to conduct research that was illegal in the USA.

    Edit / this guy just comes out and uses COVID lab leak theories as an analogy for AI-box fantasies, but these people don't just cite it as a parallel, they are MAD about what they think happened and want you to be mad too.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • That was the party line in the American foreign-policy crowd since winter 2021/2022. They thought that if the 'great power' Russia invaded, Ukraine would fall. So Burja's tweet was not even original, just the same thing any 23-year-old staffer in a new suit was writing.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Decker is a GMU Econ PhD student getting distracted by Twitter and Aella. I don't think he has figured out that for a nerdy dude, "economist/quant" is a much better career path than "social media provocateur" (so delete X, get your PhD, sign on with a financial-services company, and frolic with sex workers on your own time).

    Edit / he dropped out of his PhD program but wants to start a new one at Cambridge. I would not bet that he becomes Dr. Decker. He also has a date-me Google Doc.

  • The AI 2040 "not how this works" supercut

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  • He is a successful pulp writer and pop nonfiction writer and fundraiser, and women like him, but he does not seem like a riveting speaker. In some ways his withdrawal to Twitter and Washington State makes it easier for fans to imagine that he is whatever they need.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • He cites Samo Burja and Nicholas Decker? And Cremieux is the twitter account he cites second most often, with Richard Hanania in 4th place?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Samo Burja ("How Roman Emperors Handled the Succession Problem"), SlateScott, and POTUS have all expressed interest in Herbert Hoover. Is this part of a broader online right thing in the USA?

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  • I think Yud does not want the responsibility. LessWrong and Effective Altruism attracted so many people, and he discovered that trying to manage the communities was too much work, so he just tweets and publishes fanfic. This is convenient for his fans because they can pick and chose which of his ideas are the Real Yud Thought.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • In a quick DuckDuckGo I can't find any site that claims Samo Burja has a degree.

    His concept of live player is just another way of saying that most people are NPCs. The manuscript appears to call Elon Musk an engineer which is like calling Cheops an architect (alternatively, Musk must "fundamentally understand engineering").

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Samo Burja of Leverage Research and Palladium Magazine is trying to pivot to respectability https://samoburja.com/ He also has a Substack blog. People call him a sociologist and a political scirentist but he seems (echo me) entirely self-published except for a few opinion pieces and his highest educational credential is "studied at the University of Ljubljana." The Long Now Foundation gave him money which is disappointing.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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  • The author characterizes EA as being more "businesslike and professional" than LW, then spends the article talking about how their plans all hinge on getting a rich patron.

    The image of the beautiful gardens floored with Astroturf is sad.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • I don't know if the prosecution will say the accused talked her friends into this, or her friends talked her into it. Some people think Ziz talked someone else into taking their own life. Either story will be horrid.

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  • The killings of outsiders remind me of the Symbionese Liberation Army because they don't even follow from the ideology, just young people talking themselves into attacking their parents, their landlord, and the cops. I think the only reason Ziz and friends did not try armed robbery was that it does not pay any more.

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  • On Old! SneerClub, the Zizian whose parents were murdered in their home has been charged with the killing. The story is horrid so I will not link. I just wanted to make fun of cranks not stare at horrors.

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  • And these people know that crypto and GameStop and their friends' startups did not keep growing rapidly forever. They know that just because donations to EA had been rapidly growing they did not continue to accelerate. They have friends who covered the logistic function / sigmoid at Stanford. Another Californian had a witticism about the trouble getting someone to understand something when he is paid to misunderstand.

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