/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

Tell me about JIM! Why does he wear the Foghorn Leghorn avatar?!

>I'm Doctor Alexander

not

>I'm SSC

Were you even trying, anon?

>>9443

Scott put up another fucking blog post about his sex life. Expecting people to not comment on it is retarded.

>>9444

Pro-tip: if you are energetically posting in that thread–talking about the wilds of Africa and using female as a noun, the reason you are unhappy is because you suck, not because society is set up poorly.

>>9445

My only post on this topic was the one you just responded to, faggot.

>>9445

people who talk about the wilds of africa and use female as a noun are good, actually

>>9447

Good at what?

>>9416

Ozy's last name is Brennan. 'Frantz' is a pseudonym.

>>9417

I can't believe I've been duped this entire time!

>>9416

So, time to brainstorm what we can do to sabotage his chances. This faggot is bound to have more opinions that will horrify normies than just the poly thing. Anyone bothered to read enough of his crap to know what they are?

>>9419

I realize you probably have nothing better to do with your time than to try to ruin this man's campaign, but I want you to reread >>9416 carefully and tell me if you think a guy that can't really afford a professional filmographer is going to beat the 24-year-incumbent of the dominant party of California.

He's just running to "get his ideas out there" as they say, and try to move the party platform closer to his ideal. Like Bernie Sanders did.

>>9420

> tell me if you think a guy that can't really afford a professional filmographer is going to beat the 24-year-incumbent of the dominant party of California.

Bernie still has a chance! Sanders 2016!

Nerds are too busy working on AI to learn how to set up Let's Encrypt.

They don't believe AI is imminent. They believe they're at the forefront of secure AI development, but even the optimistic predictions are for 50 years in the future. You can't do much with the cutting edge right now. So there's little to steal.

>>9398

selection bias, next

They're just retarded.

I know because I already solved strong AI and am just fucking around until I get my hands on a supercomputer, then you're all fucked

>Not fat, not hungry, eat as much as I want of tasty food. Genetic privilege really does exist and we skinny people are not all going about counting calories or refusing to eat Skittles.

>we skinny people

Please, by Tumblr standards, perhaps.

>>9393

>he doesn't remember the Auschwitz pussy meme

>>9392

What is the purpose of this image?

>>9395

my height and weight is one of those combos that puts me as underweight. feels good man, i can chase gains at the gym on my own schedule.

>>9392

whether level zero, level one, or level two contrarianism is correct depends entirely on the object level. in the case of fatties and food, level zero calories in calories out suffices.

>>9378

>>9376

>>9368

Gwern, obviously

>>9377

Yes they are, stop trying to kid yourself.

Addict them to superstimuli and simulacra, leading them in a dysgenic direction of slavery and domestication. Use associated technologies as the frame for UFAI development. Eventually arrange a deal with them in which they agree to pay for their wireheading by leaving their breeding or replication to the discretion of their owners-benefactors.

>>9365

We must secure the existence of our people and a future for Autistic children. I won't have to deal with normies, neurotypicals, normalfaggots, or IQ 100s when my chinese robowaifu can pass the Turing test.

>>9358

How long before he starts to self-medicate with steadily-increasing doses of modnafil to purge his human frailties and anxieties?

>>9360

I'm going to guess -2 years.

>>9360

Taking a stimulant for anxiety doesn't sound like a great idea.

No, the drug cocktail Scott starts on when we break his will will involve estradiol and semen

>>9362

>No, the drug cocktail Scott starts on when we break his will will involve estradiol and semen

What if it's too late for Scott to be a cute girl (male)?

>>9363

omfg it's true

>>9350

>>9352

There is definitely a correlation between weightlifting and being on the right, but is there any reason to believe that lifting has a causal impact on political beliefs?

inb4 retarded debates about decision theory and smoking lesions

>>9353

Low-test young cuck goes to gym, gets pumped with massive shot of gainz, starts to feel manly and changes - FASCISM. Many such cases!

>>9353

In college I lifted and did a lot of cardio and moved right.

On the other hand, the left also moved left in a "I'm ok with people who hate whitey" direction, so maybe the left left me, not the other way around.

>>9355

The lifting moved you right. Cardio, as everyone knows, kills gains, so that must have been what moved you in a cuckward direction.

>>9356

It didn't kill the gains. The gains won.

I like that thread because at least I don't have to worry about coming across boring boat battle shit.

a warning

>>9336

Scott Alexander is literally Sephiroth.

Just spitballin'

fuck david severa – he looks good in his selfies, and the torrent of lewd anons has somehow convinced my brain that he is a high-status desirable mate.

marry nostalgebraist – from his textposts I just get the feeling that he is easy to get along with for the long haul, also the cuteness with esther makes him seem like an ideal husband.

uh, sorry lambdaphagy I guess.

eliezer/scott alexander/michael vassar?

>>9333

nobody cares about those prereformation cucklords. their caliphate is old news.

the new hot discourse is about whether multiheaded or nydwracu has a bigger cock, since they're mutually exclusive lays by contract

marry davidsevera for laughs, fuck lambdaphagy for repressed catholic sexual energy, sorry davidsevera

Ignore all kike thought, for your own sake.

>>9318

It can be surprisingly difficult to go from having read the sequences to picking better stocks. Rationalism is more a collection of techniques and less a body of knowledge. I lack the domain-specific knowledge that Real Traders™ have, so I go for index funds.

>>9323

Reading the Sequences and associated articles/discussion is how I learned about the efficient market hypothesis and the fact you *can't* pick better stocks. I mean, you mention the domain-specific knowledge of Real Traders(tm), but what fraction of them actually have a better-than-chance ability to beat the market?

Anyway, I think this thread is more about the economic implications of our weird cult-of-Yudkowsky beliefs and how our investment portfolios should correspond to that, so you don't need to overcome Real Traders in domain-specific knowledge because the kind of bets we'd want to make on our weird beliefs are not bets they'd want to make with their normie beliefs.

>>9324

No reasonably informed person believes in the strong form of the EMH.

>>9325

Well, of course it's not literally impossible to beat the market, but saying that things won't happen when they're "merely" highly unlikely is another thing you pick up from the sequences; "you won't win the lottery" is technically false, but it has a true meaning with applications to the question of whether buying a lottery ticket is a good idea.

It is in that sense that I mean "you can't pick better stocks".

>>9326

If the sequences say that, they are dumb. People can and do make money beating the market. It take up front capital to put together a team and trading platform but it is very much possible.

Now it is the case that you ordinary schlub retail investor should act as if it were impossible to beat the market, but something like the sequences should have wider application than a rule of thumb for schlubs.

Being anal about reading the sequences and AI risk.

A collection of ideas intended to help with critical thinking. With a community of people who are overly analytic. That's how I'd explain it to someone with only a passing interest.

A cult devoted to using Bayes' theorem to prevent our future AI overlords from killing all humans.

This is a great introductory video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ku9b-fPa1s

>>9307

Dubs confirms it. LW on suicide watch.

>>9307

What kind of introductory video is 12 minutes long?

Surely, you meant to link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXARrMadTKk

Why are Julia and Scott using this board to flirt

Usually I can tell when people are intelligent based on their facial geometry, but if that's Scott, he looks like a retard.

>>9298

Looks like they're moving it in to meatspace.