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  • Hi. I’m new to Sneer Club. Only realized what the Reddit community was about a few days ago. I never visited the Less Wrong site back in its era of high activity. I had a friend who told me about it, the Harry Potter fanfic, and I guess the Sequences, but it all seemed like a massively low return on time investment, and the self-important mission to save humanity from Unfriendly AI also sounded kooky and like some kind of self-perpetuating bullshit.

    (Aside: As for Slate Star Codex, I probably never read a single piece all the way through. The guy just meanders incessantly, and to this day, I’m amazed any readers could keep doing that to themselves.)

    This all brings me some sadness, as I deeply value critical thinking and rationalism (Who tells themselves that they don’t?), and as annoying as that community was, and their diaspora in the effective altruist milieu is today, given that the world seems to be ever more irrational, rationalism-minded people and movements, IMO, are dearly needed.

    Lately though I’ve been fascinated by how for all the skills that community worked to instill itself with, it didn’t wind up insulating itself from imploding into its own irrationalism.

    Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to join this community and to all the people that put it together and maintain it.

    Yudkowsky is Dr. Lucas Elliot from the 1990s MTV cartoon The Head.

  • I was just about over my withdrawal symptoms from reddit, and now this comes along. Thanks a lot, you bastards.

  • be here or be sneer, i guess

    i sort of depend on this community to not go insane working in tech, so i'm happy it's continuing

    • same! sneerclub is like a beacon of sanity when all your coworkers are doing the “ai apocalypse is here when I hook gpt up to a good enough robot” bit and slack won’t stop blowing up

      • slack literally crashed on me this morning, how'd you know

        but yeah, i'm sure we'll be replacing humans with computers any day now

    • i'd restart techtakes here except only a very few read it on reddit either lol

      • I really like sneering at hn posts and I always wished techtakes had more traffic. I’m not sure how to swing it from a community growth standpoint (at least til we federate) but there’s always room for more sneer communities here

  • Just another refugee from the javascript mines, who enjoys a good sneer.

    • I lost a lot of good javascript miners the last time my bundler toolchain collapsed under its own weight

  • the party’s at my house but everybody else brought the good whiskey. contact me if the house starts to burn down: @zzt@mas.to on mastodon or email if you insist (username and domain are the same as here)

  • Hi, I'm Mii (u/0xMii on Reddit), software dev and hobby artist. I was a lurker on old SneerClub and TechTakes and only recently found out they moved here. Glad to have it back, because with the current AI hype, the TESCREAL clowns creep in everywhere and I'm trying to maintain my sanity.

    They almost got me and pulled me into their cult a few years back, but I luckily got out before it was too late.

  • Hi, everyone!

    I wanted to create an astronomical number of accounts on behalf of all the people who didn't support the creation of this instance, just so they could be banned forever, but that wouldn't be very aligned of me.

    Let's have fun sneering together until Yud nukes the server.

  • hello I love to sneer and lurk and shitpost and my hobbies include staying poor, which I enjoy greatly

  • Greetings and salutations. I am a living breathing, systematic error.

  • Hello! I'm Eric and I've been sneering for a year. Love, love, love this community because reading some of the misanthropic techno fash b.s. rat cult beliefs was making me big mad & big sad, but injecting sneers directly into my veins has inoculated me :)

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