"Berenstein Bear", but not "Mandala Effect"?
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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Help someone who’s out of the loop: who the fuck is Scott Alexander?
An overly wordy misogynistic racist, who seeks to covertly transmit ideas from neo-fascist and race realist groups such as the Occidental Review to his primarily 'liberal' audience, and a major leader within a techno-utopian/apocalyptic sex cult, which for some reason is actually influential within tech policy.
truly envy your ignorance on this individual
Also don't forget this.
Also note this rationalwiki page (rationalwiki is not the same as the Lesswrong Rationalists, in fact rationalwiki is more on the side of awful.systems. Wait, Lesswrong Rationalists? You say, yeah see this rationalwiki page on them that is basically Scotts 'grey tribe')
One of the thonkleaders in the group of people this sub is about
The covid didn't happen at all substack (I checked their twitter) also doesn't believe any recent pandemic happened (no swineflu's ever), and it gets better the spanish flu also was a planned event, nor do they believe that anti-depressants help people, is a climategate truther etc (They are also pretty pro Israel in the current conflict but that should come as no surprise). So well done linking to that Scott.
If swine flu didn’t happen does that mean my lifelong cough is fake
yes, you were actually poisoned by woke
DEI you mean, do keep up with the changing lingo. ;)
Good try but his own disclaimer at the top ends up telling on him
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.]
That's nice Scott.
And right under there you've got
I’ll never tire of analogies putting the US / Europe gap into perspective - for example, did you know that the median black American household earns more ($48,297) than the median UK household (£35,000 = $44,450)?
Assuming these numbers are real, it's meaningless to compare gross salary, and not take into account the social contribution and whatever other taxes and contributions paid by the employer. I don't have good enough knowledge about how US and UK salaries break down to elaborate much, but a heuristic I've been applying is to just slash US salaries in two to get a better impression of the living conditions.
(And as the page Scott links to specifies, "According to the Census Bureau in 2021, the average non-Hispanic black median household income was $48,297 in comparison to $77,999 for non-Hispanic white households", so there you go)
I left a comment that made a similar point with some data:
4: Please stop sharing conspiracy theories
5: Higher wages are useless if your country's infrastructure and tax system is so piss poor that you need to spend more on basic necessities. We have economic metrics that account for some of this, such as the difference between income and discretionary income. Free-market propagandists always point to the US having high income, but the same can not be said for discretionary income. For example, if we compare the US to the Netherlands, we see that the US median disposable income is 41K while in the Netherlands it's 36K. But let's compare how much you have to spend in your day to day life and calculate the discretionary income based on that:
________________________US_______Netherlands
income________________41k_______36k
food___________________5.1k_______3.7k
shelter_________________13.2k______13k
clothing________________1.2k_______1.5k
transport______________6.3k_______3.4k
health__________________3.2k_______1.8k
student debt___________2.1k_______0.8k
discretionary income__9.9k_______11.8k
As we see, the case the free-market capitalist makes falls apart once we look at discretionary income, which collectivist and social policies ensure is higher in the Netherlands.
EDIT: Scott has edited the post to make 4 seem less like an endorsement and more an ironic share. This is better, but I still prefer it if these things aren't spread at all.
EDIT 2: Source for the 2021 US-Dutch disposable income vs discretionary income (as well as a lot of other comparisons between median US and Dutch expenditure): https://www.moneymacro.rocks/2021-07-02-dutch-vs-america-middle-class/
christ the level of bad faith wrongheaded nonsense you're getting in response is maddening
How would you justify your demand to stop sharing conspiracy theories? What's the rationale?
dude
"now do arbitrary homework for me"
Scott "I didn't actually read the book I reviewed" Alexander.
Well, guessing I know what my family is about to spam my inbox with..