David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English
0·20 days agodonor-advised funds
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English
0·23 days agothe fuckin make a wish foundation is more effective than EA
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityEnglish
0·27 days agofwiw, that HP cult doesn’t have a body count (that I know of)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over thisEnglish
0·1 month agooh it’s worse, people send me this shit
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over thisEnglish
0·1 month agosomeone who has crossed paths with the EAs previously sent it to me!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA frontEnglish
0·1 month agoyep, it’s “us too!” on those
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Gwern: I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch **Guardian Angel Inc** and bring GAs to life.English
0·1 month agowell, somewhat. about as readable.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Our friends open brokerage accountsEnglish
0·2 months agoMitchell, you’ve been around rationalism long enough.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•our very good EA billionaire friends are funding the Abundance movementEnglish
0·3 months agoMoskovitz is the biggest name in Abundance
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•if LessWrong bans insufferable twats just because they make everyone miserable, who's next?? *me??????*English
0·4 months agoAnna Salomon, long time rationalist and cofounder of CFAR
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•if LessWrong bans insufferable twats just because they make everyone miserable, who's next?? *me??????*English
0·4 months agoyeah remember that it’s a LW tenet that Ashkenazi Jews are of unusually high IQ. Coincidentally a group containing both Eliezer and Scoot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•LessWrong: want a mnemonic for your detailed eugenics? How about AI anime tiddaysEnglish
0·4 months agoSimonides of Ceos famously constructed the Method of Tiddays in a heated argument over subs versus dubs
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Red Means No / 'That' CNC kink party Incident LogEnglish
0·4 months agonobody at all should read it
but college hill risked her incredulity on one of their glowfics https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1957447689248882728.html
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•plzdontkillus - Our friends discover TikTokEnglish
0·4 months agoI remember him wearing a suit a lot in the 2010s and looking reasonably respectable. He can, he just doesn’t.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA.English
0·4 months agoVibecamp is a meetup for the rationalist subculture, especially of the TPOT (That Part Of Twitter) subgroup. Curtis Yarvin was an honoured guest in 2022 and got treated like a rock star.
It comes across as philosophy by people who refused to study philosophy.
it is quite literally this, yes
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•New member of the rationalist axis of evil just droppedEnglish
0·5 months agoa much longer term SneerClub regular than you
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Aella's Influence on Rationalist Kink Practices (cursed phrase)English
0·6 months agoand somehow I’m declared enemy #1
i actually spoke to someone in greece who tried tracking this story to its roots, and is pretty sure it didn’t actually happen, but identified places it could have happened, so it seems to have been written by someone who’d been to exarcheia










oh boy are you in the right sub to hear about it