Effective Altruism is when you want to spend money on genetic engineering for race-and-IQ theories. Emphasises Richard Lynn fandom in the comments. Front-paged. - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    Top comment by a large margin is an extensive ‘your sources are bad and you should feel bad’ by some Bob Jacobs, which would be encouraging, if wasnt for every. single. other. comment.

    Not a bad read overall (the BJ comment), especially if like me you didnt remember off the top of your head who Lynn is and why he sucks, even if it suffers from the forced rationalist equanimity that dictates you treat obviously disingenuous bulshit with the utmost respect as long as it is presented in a sufficiently formalistic manner and doesn’t call for genocide too overtly (I wonder what the deleted Roko comment was about).

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      11 months ago

      I wonder what the deleted Roko comment was about

      Are you talking about his -18 karma comment? It says:

      Long post on eugenics, -1 points right now and lots of comments disagreeing. Looks like this is a political battle; I’ll skip actually reading it and note that these kinds of issues are not decided rationally but politically, EA is a left-wing movement so eugenics is axiomatically bad. From a right-wing point of view one can even see it as a good thing that the left is irrational about this kind of thing, it means that they will be late adopters of the technology and fall behind.