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.
Hello, lurker from ye olde sneerclubbe. So glad to see this place continue! Huge source of comfort when I broke with the rat community after realising how crazy cultish they are—thanks sneeple ✨️
I was an infrequent commenter at the old place (u/yawaster), usually when I got really annoyed about something TESCREAL related. I will probably also be an infrequent commenter here but I still need an occasional outlet for my sneer. Fair play for actually setting up an escape raft from Reddit rather than slinking back, the future of the useable/bearable web depends on people putting their money where their mouth is.
Lurker. SC helped ensure I didn't fully enter the rabbithole of LW/rationalists/SSC, which is good because literally just the relatively short exposure I had to their nonsense has had lasting effects on me.
So yea.
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.
I was on the old reddit /r/sneerclub, same username. Finally making an account here. I will probably post a few sneequence classics that haven't been discussed mocked properly before.
Hi, I'm John Bierce, cheesy fantasy novelist (both in the sense of writing cheesy books, and in the sense of being full of the literal dairy product), and I was on SneerClub (using various accounts) since around... 2019, 2020? I've missed it since it fled Reddit, especially with all the rampant, stupid AI hype and TESCREAL bullshit running rampant right now.
Hello. I've been a lurker in SneerClub for a year or so.
I've never been either a Yudkowsky-style rationalist or worked in the IT industry, but my whole life has been weirdly parallel to this sort of thing. And now that world has nurtured some of the worst A-list villainy of our times.
Yays. I'm still trying to work out precisely how deep the rot goes.
Favourite personal hate sinks include Scott Alexander, Richard Hanania, Robin Hanson, Steven Pinker, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and the thing that bought Twitter. I have a bad feeling these people are building an intellectual infrastructure for fascism more functional than anything the fascists could manage themselves.
I've been meaning to ask if Liv Boeree is on the radar. I'd seen her stuff recommended on YT and it seemed like innocuous sciencey stuff but instantly got the rationalist vibe. Then saw she was on Lex Fridman's podcast. Looked into her a bit (wikipedia) and she is indeed in the effective altruism world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Boeree
Hi, I was a small-time poster and mostly-lurker on sneerclub. Good to find this place where I can follow the atrocity-documentation. PS does this mean I have joined the fediverse?
@dgerard I used to like lurking on the old subreddit. Now the Lemmy posts occasionally show up in my Mastodon feed. Glad to see people are still sneering!
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
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 :)
Hi, I was mediumdiver on Reddit. I was marginally involved with the New Atheists until after “Elevatorgate” blew up. I don’t exactly remember why I found Sneer Club but it probably had something to do with the overlap between online atheism and the rationalists. Glad to see this community has a new home!
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.
Go read it. I have no idea what any of it means. I know what treacle means in the context of desserts, but not as a group of people. NSFW is obviously being changed to mean something specific, but no context is given for the change. The whole side bar is like one inside joke that doesn't make sense to anyone visiting, but you've got a post here welcoming new to say hi with no explanation as to what the community us about. Visitors are given no context, and I can't tell what any of the posts have to do with each other.
So, I guess, I meant exactly what I asked the first time.
here's a sparse intro and that's probably the extent of our customer service, you can pick up the rest by clicking links
i'm vaguely curious as to how you decided to come to someone else's server and demand they explain themselves to you, is this a thing you do a lot, but only vaguely
I sort by new to look for new communities that are active while lemmy grows. The purpose of the side bar is to let visitors, who potentially would want to engage with your community, what you're about. Yours doesnt make any sense and you don't seem to want anyone to understand so fuck you and I'll just block your community. You must not have anything worth participating with is that's how you engaged with new people.
Having rules about what the sidebar should say and how it should look like sounds like what a centralized system like Reddit would enforce, so I'm not sure I'm getting your point.
Anyway, I'm not a mod, I don't care about Lemmy microdrama, this is just the place people went to when the sub was put into lockdown. So far the results of federation are neutral-to-negative in my opinion.
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jotaemei@awful.systems · 9 pts · 2y
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.
dgerard@awful.systems · 9 pts · 3y
hello, my name is David Gerard and I caused the downfall of Twitter and hence Reddit
4grams@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
TerribleMachines@awful.systems · 8 pts · 3y
Hello, lurker from ye olde sneerclubbe. So glad to see this place continue! Huge source of comfort when I broke with the rat community after realising how crazy cultish they are—thanks sneeple ✨️
self@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
welcome back!
YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems · 7 pts · 3y
dgerard@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
I still have your hammer 🔨 haven't had to use it yet
self@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
you jinxed it David!
dgerard@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
lol
Eondo@awful.systems · 6 pts · 3y
Hii, just one more simulated existence added to the pool!
maol@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
hello! \o_
I was an infrequent commenter at the old place (u/yawaster), usually when I got really annoyed about something TESCREAL related. I will probably also be an infrequent commenter here but I still need an occasional outlet for my sneer. Fair play for actually setting up an escape raft from Reddit rather than slinking back, the future of the useable/bearable web depends on people putting their money where their mouth is.
saucerwizard@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
it me from sneerclub
willsitting2@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
Lurker. SC helped ensure I didn't fully enter the rabbithole of LW/rationalists/SSC, which is good because literally just the relatively short exposure I had to their nonsense has had lasting effects on me. So yea.
mii@awful.systems · 4 pts · 2y
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.
scruiser@awful.systems · 4 pts · 2y
I was on the old reddit /r/sneerclub, same username. Finally making an account here. I will probably post a few sneequence classics that haven't been
discussedmocked properly before.mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub · 4 pts · 3y
hello! finally made it from an external instance!
Anthena@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
Hello, I used to be Cavelcade, but that was in a different place.
aster@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
Hi hi hi this is @arsonatdennys
JohnBierce@awful.systems · 4 pts · 2y
Hi, I'm John Bierce, cheesy fantasy novelist (both in the sense of writing cheesy books, and in the sense of being full of the literal dairy product), and I was on SneerClub (using various accounts) since around... 2019, 2020? I've missed it since it fled Reddit, especially with all the rampant, stupid AI hype and TESCREAL bullshit running rampant right now.
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
Welcome! Maybe you’ll be interested in out MoreWrite sub too
JohnBierce@awful.systems · 2 pts · 2y
I'll check it out!
zbyte64@mastodon.social · 3 pts · 3y
@dgerard woah
two_kittens@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
Hello. I've been a lurker in SneerClub for a year or so.
I've never been either a Yudkowsky-style rationalist or worked in the IT industry, but my whole life has been weirdly parallel to this sort of thing. And now that world has nurtured some of the worst A-list villainy of our times.
Yays. I'm still trying to work out precisely how deep the rot goes.
Favourite personal hate sinks include Scott Alexander, Richard Hanania, Robin Hanson, Steven Pinker, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and the thing that bought Twitter. I have a bad feeling these people are building an intellectual infrastructure for fascism more functional than anything the fascists could manage themselves.
v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y
I still haven't decided where I'll try to make my home/primary instance for usage.
arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
hi, another lurker from reddit here. maybe i'll try posting this time around
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
I've been meaning to ask if Liv Boeree is on the radar. I'd seen her stuff recommended on YT and it seemed like innocuous sciencey stuff but instantly got the rationalist vibe. Then saw she was on Lex Fridman's podcast. Looked into her a bit (wikipedia) and she is indeed in the effective altruism world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Boeree
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
For the record
https://x.com/xriskology/status/1761932339427394017
gerikson@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
yeah right
sinedpick@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
Just noticed this sticky. I'm here because nowhere else do people shit on Yudkowsky enough. Fuck that hack with a chainsaw, metaphorically of course.
korydg@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
Hi, I was a small-time poster and mostly-lurker on sneerclub. Good to find this place where I can follow the atrocity-documentation. PS does this mean I have joined the fediverse?
notdelet@awful.systems · 3 pts · 2y
Hi, it took me 5 months to join, but here I am from /r/sneerclub.
cage@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
Greetings and salutations. I am a living breathing, systematic error.
den_the_terran@mastodon.social · 2 pts · 2y
@dgerard I used to like lurking on the old subreddit. Now the Lemmy posts occasionally show up in my Mastodon feed. Glad to see people are still sneering!
mplewis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
i'm still having trouble federating in from lemmy.globe.pub, so hello from lemmy.world!
blakestacey@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
Hi, I'm Blake, physicist and procrastinator.
21Cabbage@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Well hello
coco@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Wussiup!!
mvirts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
😹
swlabr@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
Fuck yeah, SneerClub 2: the Sneerquel.
Swablr the Blue. That was my name. I am Swlabr the uncoloured. And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide.
dgerard@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
* the tilde
doge_d_aspin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
yo!
200fifty@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
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
dgerard@awful.systems · 0 pts · 3y
i'd restart techtakes here except only a very few read it on reddit either lol
self@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
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
AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
I am, as it were, calling from the future. Acausally.
BigMuffin69@awful.systems · 2 pts · 2y
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 :)
YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems · 2 pts · 2y
Oh hey, did I ever actually post here? No? Whoops.
I blame the ghosts in between the machines.
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
Hi, and thanks for making this! Glad to continue sneering.
P.S. "TREACLES" is pretty clever, Emile Torres and Timnit Gebru should have gone with that instead of keeping it in chronological order.
dgerard@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
i know right? IT WAS RIGHT THERE
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
I was just about over my withdrawal symptoms from reddit, and now this comes along. Thanks a lot, you bastards.
Mediumdave65@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
Hi, I was mediumdiver on Reddit. I was marginally involved with the New Atheists until after “Elevatorgate” blew up. I don’t exactly remember why I found Sneer Club but it probably had something to do with the overlap between online atheism and the rationalists. Glad to see this community has a new home!
mawhrin@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
hello; i'm here to sneer and complain. i have many hobbies that i don't pursue and a mastodon.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
EvilMole@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
kuna@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
pja@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
Sneerclub abides!
gerikson@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
Hi, thanks for letting me in. Fleeing the Redditcalypse.
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems · 1 pts · 2y
carlitoscohones@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
I lurked at the sneerclub, and now I'm here. Hi all!
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
Hi everyone. I’m Steve and I am hoping for a judgment-free sneer club
dgerard@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3y
oh no, there's going to be a ton of judgement, possibly up to and including lightning bolts
self@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
don’t forget eternal, acausal torture
JeepEep@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
Back, and ready to have my disgust face back in action
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
fasterandworse@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
zhinxy@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
Hi, long time lurker and fan!
bitofhope@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
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.
MomSpaghetti@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Found this on all, immediately blocking the dumpster fire.
elmtonic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
hello
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y
What is the side bar here supposed to mean, like at all?
dgerard@awful.systems · 1 pts · 3y
what do you mean?
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 3y
Go read it. I have no idea what any of it means. I know what treacle means in the context of desserts, but not as a group of people. NSFW is obviously being changed to mean something specific, but no context is given for the change. The whole side bar is like one inside joke that doesn't make sense to anyone visiting, but you've got a post here welcoming new to say hi with no explanation as to what the community us about. Visitors are given no context, and I can't tell what any of the posts have to do with each other.
So, I guess, I meant exactly what I asked the first time.
dgerard@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
here's a sparse intro and that's probably the extent of our customer service, you can pick up the rest by clicking links
i'm vaguely curious as to how you decided to come to someone else's server and demand they explain themselves to you, is this a thing you do a lot, but only vaguely
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 3y
I sort by new to look for new communities that are active while lemmy grows. The purpose of the side bar is to let visitors, who potentially would want to engage with your community, what you're about. Yours doesnt make any sense and you don't seem to want anyone to understand so fuck you and I'll just block your community. You must not have anything worth participating with is that's how you engaged with new people.
dgerard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 3y
The feeling's mutual, to be clear. Your refund is enclosed.
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Taking down comments that hurt your little feelings?
YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
The purpose of the sidebar is what now
gerikson@awful.systems · 7 pts · 3y
Growth hacking dontchaknow
YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems · 7 pts · 3y
I love when people turn arbitrary social not even norms into moral imperatives
blakestacey@awful.systems · 6 pts · 3y
(growth hacker voice) I'm in...line to exceed Q3 revenue projections
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
What the fuck man, you're over here crying about typo. I've block your community, you guys are insufferable
gerikson@awful.systems · 5 pts · 3y
Ah federation, when random drive-bys can comment telling you're doing it wrong...
dgerard@awful.systems · 4 pts · 3y
it's everything we hoped for. no wait, not "hoped".
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
You do understand that this post is LITERALLY inviting guests to your community, and then you shit on people for asking what it is
Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 3y
Or could just yell you what an unwelcoming community you've built. You guys belong back on reddit
YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems · 6 pts · 3y
Lmao why did you invite people in here to vote on your comments
gerikson@awful.systems · 3 pts · 3y
Didn't you say you were blocking this instance?
Having rules about what the sidebar should say and how it should look like sounds like what a centralized system like Reddit would enforce, so I'm not sure I'm getting your point.
Anyway, I'm not a mod, I don't care about Lemmy microdrama, this is just the place people went to when the sub was put into lockdown. So far the results of federation are neutral-to-negative in my opinion.