Thanks!

I also added his name to a ‘to read’ list when he was brought up on reddit before our exodus, but simply had not come to it. Other things drew my attention more. (like the murderbot series for example).

Sorry I don’t think I actually have read anything from him apart from this story (at least not recently/logged) so I don’t know, heard a lot about permutation city, but that might be a harder read now esp if you are on the sneerclub side. (I’d assume that even then I would enjoy it, even if I eyeroll heavily (for example recently read and enjoyed Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton despite the very everybody except the main char is a strawman feeling, also really enjoyed looking at goodreads and seeing a negative review of someone who had missed the point so far they hit Andromeda). But I also enjoyed reading the horus heresy, so there is that). But yes, im also keeping notes on what to look into here.

Yeah, and despite me being quite anti LLMs, I did like how he didn’t make them useless, fits nicely with the story, also allowed the great ending line.

lol that tweet. But yeah why don’t the people who write dystopian fiction about the torment nexus and the people who want to build torment nexusses together? Don’t they want to understand why we cannot make life slightly better for the poor tortured kid?

I saw people complain his characters had no debt and character or something because they all were so agreeable, and I was a bit confused. (I have not read any of his earlier work, some of it I wanted to read but never got around to, mentally pushed it further upward now) but it was odd to see that comment after reading this short story. I mean yes they were agreeable (after all they had to work together) but it revealed a lot of character. This bit alone: ‘“So what do you call mine?” Ken asked bravely. “Peak Conformist,” Helen replied. Ken laughed, unoffended.’

Thank you, fixed. And thanks for looking it up.

And the healthcare CEO.

From the comments of the LW article.

"I like and admire both Charles Stross and Greg Egan a lot but I think they both have “singularitarians” or “all of their biggest fans” or something like that in their Jungian Shadow.

I’m pretty sure they like money. Presumably they like that we buy their books? Implicitly you’d think that they like that we admire them. But explicitly they seem to look down on us as cretins as part of them being artists who bestow pearls on us… or something?"

Nobody show that picture to the mensware guy.

E: him being mad at the people who look up to him is very Julius Evola declaring himself a super fascist after fascism loses however, so no kudos to him. Fascist geeks vs fascist geeks.

Yarvin is the brain

“We should give them cookies”

She killed herself over EA sexual abuse. EA did massive damage control over this (including some defenses from Scott which as a professional he simply should have said because it spread typical myths about fake accusations/people in situations like this). Lot of people were hurt, disregarded and treated horribly. She wasn’t the only one suffering from abuse (PolyamorousNephandus on reddit also spoke openly and a lot about abuse suffered by her). Try searching the reddit sneerclub archives for more. It is, due to the subject matter a subject we should be careful and serious about however. EA seems to have added procedures and people to adres stuff like this after everything but not sure if LW did for example. Also due to only looking at it from the outside I have no idea if this helped or if a whisper network is still the best defense people have. (This article from 2023 (for which PolyamorousNephandus said she was interviewed, which is how I found it) does not fill me with much hope).

Not if the basilisk simulates you.

I actually missed it myself. I had seen here face a few times, wasn’t that interested so the suggestions went away, and later I heard about her going into the anti-woke stuff. (The most recent thing, her support of the ‘war on science’ book (no not MAGA, the wokes!) was funny in a ‘read the room/news, endless screaming’ way).

He was the ‘race and IQ’ guy on the slatestarcodex reddit. He posted A LOT about race and IQ. He also famously made it to the ‘quality contributions’ thread of that place. Describing his ideal world. A small quotation: (there is more, a lot more):

• Mandatory abortions of the congenitally ill.
• Corporal or capital punishment for adultery.
• Adultery as a civil crime.
• Mental illness/having mental health medication prescribed disqualifying voting.
• Lower tax rates across the board for more fertile people.
• Paid sterilisation (i.e., trading your fecundity for a basic income).
• National genotyping and IQ scoring as part of using any sort of public health subsidisation and education.
• Allowing insurers more room to discriminate on any quality they wish, including genotype, education, and IQ (i.e., no more disparate impact or genetic discrimination laws at all).

Nice guy, no issues, normal type of quality contribution.

“T*PornO is one of our most prolific and high quality contributors, and his eccentricities don’t do anywhere remotely enough bad to overcome the good he does by being around here and posting.” Salt the earth.

Wow TP0s (I think we prefer to not use his full name here, because of the slur) posting freq has dropped off a lot in the past years. At the same time as creamyitch (sorry, I don’t know how to properly pronounce his name and Crémieux was made into the dutch CremeJeuk (jeuk = itch)) joined twitter. Odd coincidence.

Yeah and as follows are chronological and limited, it was somewhat recent. So soon the ‘both sides of the iq question debate’, with a lot of content from our big friend Emil.

E: i do wonder how much she was love bombed by far right people after her bad video

Also not shocked to learn that Sabine Hossenfelder is an AGI-bro (also, she follows Crémieux), and involved enough in this wider community to think she should give her 2 cents. (for those not in the know Sabine Hossenfelder made a video about trans kids (??? y tho??) and it wasn’t that great (badly sources for one, or only sourced using one side on some subjects), so it got some pushback, and there was the predictable non-apology (also lowkey blaming your researchers for the video is very classy, esp when you then take no responsibility at all)).

‘a bad person writes a callout post …’

Ow no, they are going after tracingwoodgrains. ;) (E: ok, I this joke lands differently after reading this: “Crémieux seemed to understand this [this behavior is plagiarism] when former Harvard president Claudine Gay was accused of plagiarism.”).

‘Here is a ChatGPT legal analysis on …’

Ow god all sides suck. (Also blog length tweets were a mistake, im not reading all that).

E: read part of the initial complaint

Beefing is a funny thing. Before we invented police and laws as courts, gossip was the only method human beings had to enforce the social compact.

What…

E2: Yes, if you steelman the above statement it makes sense, but that is stilly, you can make almost anything make sense if you steelman it long enough, pigs fly if you count falling as flying, liking romance novels is now a hardcore porn addiction (wonder why he picked her to go after), ignore peer review and blogging can be on the same level as academia. (Wait, I gotta think a bit more about that last one).

Damn, had missed somebody did an effort post series on all these problems. What I have read so far is pretty good.

I thought in modern US phrenology East Asians were smart?

Ow boy, yeah, the scientific racists usually admit the asian people are smart (or do better than the west on IQ tests) but that is usually followed up with some asspull on how white people still are better. Stuff like they are genetically inherently collectivist, lack creativity, etc etc. It is always funny to see IQ-anon people go ‘well western white still best’ while being really into race an IQ. (oddly rarely do they seem to mention that ‘it could just be that because higher IQ is seen as a source of pride in the west, Asian countries/China simply lie about the IQ scores’, as that would introduce a heretical thought about the sanctity of IQ testing). But yes, this is a very common pattern to see them go ‘acthually Asians still bad’.

No idea on the rest. Sorry I don’t speak their languages, so can’t really tell.