“How dare you call us eugenicists!”
Is that top reply from Scott? And is he really saying that what is holding eugenics back for now is ethical concerns?
Well I certainly hope ethical concerns are holding back eugenics. Possibly even among the main things doing so.
I think when we say ‘held back by ethical concerns’ and he says ‘held back by ethical concerns’ it means different things.
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I’m hinting at the idea that he thinks that a large field off glass would improve the view. (Based on his remark in the past that he thinks people on benefits should be sterilized).
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The more you learn about the sneerclub targets, the more you see this subject come back and back again. HBD keeps propping up over and over again for example.
Is that a special case of the trolley problem - sacrificing Silicon Valley for the sake of everybody else that has to live with their decisions?
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yeah, you know those guys who talk about the prospect of artificial intelligence taking over and destroying humanity? this is them, this sub sneerclub is about them, and this is the underbelly of their wonderful beliefs
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i warn you, it’s a rabbit hole.
enjoy this article for some of the sillier stuff (all referenced in detail)
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it actually started as r/sneerclub on reddit, which branched off from r/badphilosophy because so much Yudkowsky badphil was being posted there.
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“congratulations”, you’ve found the people who are pushing its rise, the ideologues penning the bigthonks underpinning the bad takes
it is very much a thing, unfortunately
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Best way to do it would be adding some genetic fitness signalling to internet dating.
Yeah, I may look like a serial killer and my political views would make Hitler blush, but check out my genes, baby!
Imagining a very literal version of The Selfish Gene where I’m rejected when asking someone out only because my partner doesn’t want her child to enjoy cilantro because she thinks it tastes like soap and also thinks rolling your tongue is gross.
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I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who think my fuzzy digits are cute.
Behold my supreme genotype!
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Maybe he’s referring to “middle-class” in the original, British sense. I.e. lawyers and other professionals.
30k is still a big whack of cash for a professional. They might have to send their kids to a state school!
Yeah that is silly esp as he himself wrote an article on how there are certain bands of experience you know and understand and how much there is outside of it. He is so bad at applying his own words to his own reasoning. Yeah sure the middleclass has another 300k to spare on their kids (I’m rounding the 0.5 kid up, no half kids today).
Indeed, super casual. Disturbingly so.
“2 of the triplets can’t read at grade level; the plus 5 IQ option didn’t deliver enough utils in my Monte Carlo simulation.”
How many rounds of IVF is the poor pregnant partner, inevitably a cis woman, meant to do? Isn’t IVF infamously fucking gruelling, requiring injections and ending in miscarriages? Is her husband going to make her feel like shit for refusing to make being pregnant her full time job? A massive amount of reproductive labour is just being taken for granted here.
And if these EAers refuse, the reproductive labour just gets passed on to other women. Grimes didn’t want to have another kid with Elon (aren’t they nonbinary? I’m sure it might have caused them dysphoria) so Elon persuaded one of his fucking employees into doing IVF and being their surrogate because it’s important for smart people to have kids. (Source)
Reproductive rights - never more important!
I’m just going to pretend that this thread was instead about IV breeding Pokemon. I don’t need to see a casual expression of some of humanity’s worst ideas on Reddit.
Do not give SSC a water stone.
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they will not stop until everything organic can be machine readable
Uggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
Is “polygenic” a real word or is a SSC shibboleth?
It’s a real term, meaning “influenced by multiple genes”, but who knows what weird baggage SSC have around it.
Should really be doing screen shots or an archive link so we’re not driving traffic to reddit.
That said, fucking wot?
Perfect, now it will be safe from getting scrubbed next time SVSS realizes he’s let the mask slip.
Probably need to get that archive refreshed, there’s fresh terrible replies
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Scott’s bragged about his shtetl ancestry
Isn’t that the other Scott? Or are both Scotts now involved. (I don’t have the time for additional psychic damage today, so im not going to check).
Yes, that’s the other Scott. Scott Alexander tries to project an air of sexual superiority, while Scott Aaronsson’s whole self-identification is that it’s a literal gift from God that he managed to find someone to marry.
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Same, I can seldom tell if people are talking of the SSC anagram namesake guy or the other guy, and usually don’t want to either. If it’s the Dilbert guy I can usually tell by the context. And I worry there might be one or more notable treacles with the last name Scott to make it even more confusing.
Personally, I have better things to keep track of and you probably have as well.
Don’t forget Adams! We have at least 3 horrible Scott A’s.
I could not remember seeing Alexander talk about his sexuality, and all I recall was somebody in r/ssc complaining that we didn’t know he was anhedonic (which is weird, as I found him talk about his sexual feelings, like the poster didn’t get what asexuality means (unless he talked about this more and I missed it)). But I looked it up, and I found this:
"Applying enough charity to fully fund the Red Cross for the next fifty years, [name of neo-nazi pickupartist removed] seems to be saying something along the lines of “Polyamory is especially well-suited for asexual people”. And I agree!
Many of the people I know in successful polyamorous relationships are sexual, sometimes even highly sexual. But I also know a disproportionate number of asexual polyamorous people – including myself – and the combination seems to work really, really well."
Source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/27/cuddle-culture/
So yeah, his sexual superiority comes from being an ace poly person I guess (not sure where you got that from his writings, but whatever. Do wonder why he feels the need to interact with (at least intellectually) and link to people who want him to stop existing for several reasons whoever, esp as this is not really extended towards the left (and for the record I don’t want him to stop existing)).
What I should have written is that I believe Alexander is a person who wants to give the impression that sexuality doesn’t define him. His is a life of the mind, after all.
No one in that thread bothered to even don their masks…
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that there are! updated
“Thanks.”
Edit JFC I went back and read the new comments. Pro-tip: don’t.
yeah sorry I should probably have included a (stronger) warning
