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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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ok last one but one big long bluesky thread about all this ripped from old SneerClub
Fyi, I blocked him a while back. Didnt like his whole 'im the reasonable centrist' bit while making blocklists of anti ai people.
Turns out the centrist subscribes to transhumanism (hipster edition)
the overtone window can't be that fucked, can it?
Ah, so he is part of the broader eugenics community, what a surprise.
gyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you
"the overtone window" would be a good name for the amount of racist dogwhistling that's acceptable in the mainstream media
Ah, "Kurzweilian h+," there's his marketing tagline. Too bad importing Kurzweil also brings in all his bullshit extrapolation about exponential curves that all the other weird shit is based on. You're never going to shout down the hyperbolic lunatics by adopting the core thesis of their hyperbole.
H+ also brings in the Mores, who are behind humanity+.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Vita-More and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_More
Ooh cryonics, classy.
Yeah, at best, "Kurzweilian h+" will be pseudoscientific guff. I suppose that keeping the lower strata of intellectually bad elements while discarding the worst of the social ones is progress, but, I mean, it's kind of like saying you're into your fad diet and LLM-generated supplement regimen and then looking over at RFK and saying "but that's totally different!".
I've lost it now, but somewhere in the replies to one of those threads was a person complaining that SneerClub was too much like beating up on nerds in high school. To which I say, first, here's my blueberry bread recipe, and a nice photo of a winter sunrise, and my Star Trek fanfiction. We all friendly now? Good. Then let me suggest, cordially, that if you are continuing to think of social dynamics in terms of high-school hierarchies and shitty '80s movies well into adulthood, that is a you problem. If I can stop living as the gender I had in high school, you can stop letting your membership in a granfalloon lead you by the nose.
in the same vein as jorjor wel, rakers wile
"e/acc is a troll ideology for upsetting EA people and scamming pmarca"
and "Kurzweilian h+" is just '90s nostalgia for people too proud to shop at Hot Topic
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117283017450008927
Just another centrist taking the long way around to fascism