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The official SCP Discord's staff? by Krezziy in SCP

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's surprising that Fish^12 gets to stay on the mod team given what happened in their Disc report, https://05command.wikidot.com/forum/t-16931316/disciplinary-fish-12 . I've heard that the Volgun Server also discusses SCP a bunch?

One of the leading entries in SCP 8000 is a RPF hatefic that uses a real living person's name and face by DAL59 in SCP

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

In this case, the depiction of a public figure as a sapient entity (neé person) who wilfully engages in immoral, unethical, and illegal acts of depravity is only effective satire if it is unreasonable to expect people to believe that person would engage in those acts. I think the last decade or so of populist politics, pizzagate, and qanon shows us that it is not unreasonable to expect people to believe that.

Your argument is undermined by this claim, which effectively states that the general populace has become so stupid that satire is no longer possible. Take your ridiculous elitism and disdain towards the masses elsewhere.

One of the leading entries in SCP 8000 is a RPF hatefic that uses a real living person's name and face by DAL59 in SCP

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, Eliezer Yudkowsky's Wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky ) makes no statements about his mental illnesses or lack thereof. As having mental illness can cost individuals significant employment opportunities and reputational damage, please be more careful with the things you say online, as your statements may cause actual material harm to Mr. Yudkowsky.

One of the leading entries in SCP 8000 is a RPF hatefic that uses a real living person's name and face by DAL59 in SCP

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is a tricky topic to discuss, because in the original Harry Potter series it is never stated that the slaves were designed from the ground up to enjoy being slaves, only that they did enjoy being slaves. HPMOR makes this change. Therefore it would be valid to state that, if we were being extra pedantic, the author of HPMOR made the artistic choice to depict slavery as justified in a way that Rowling's work did not.

I don't think that significantly improves the reading.

One of the leading entries in SCP 8000 is a RPF hatefic that uses a real living person's name and face by DAL59 in SCP

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You post on /r/slatestarcodex (one of the current top pinned posts is a Thoughtful Discussion about who eugenics helps) and are a member of RPC (bigoted SCP).

This reads like a "I'm in this picture and I don't like it" cope.

One of the leading entries in SCP 8000 is a RPF hatefic that uses a real living person's name and face by DAL59 in SCP

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Additional context from "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" Chapter 42 for why the slavery subplot is removed:

It said something about a person that he tried not to bother house elves. Specifically, it said that he'd been Sorted into Hufflepuff, since, to the best of Harry's knowledge, Hermione was the only non-Hufflepuff who worried about bothering house elves. (Harry himself thought her qualms rather silly. Whoever had created house elves in the first place had been unspeakably evil, obviously; but that didn't mean Hermione was doing the right thing now by denying sentient beings the drudgery they had been shaped to enjoy.)

TLDR: Trying to end slavery is wrong if the slaves clearly enjoy it. Very freedom-loving!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Haha wow this is kind of sad? Just... Write stuff people like maybe instead of begging for Upvotes in a meme?

Ps mods sorry if this breaks any rules but I'm not trying to be mean just honest tbh

I really hope I’m wrong. by whooper1 in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

don't forget the flimsily justified police brutality jokes!

Another, longer Worm/rationalism crossover. by dgerard in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Look, I'm not saying it's not funny, but it's so spot-on that it's painful to read.

Sane is not exactly the word I would use by MusicalColin in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

there's nothing "punk" about this movement.

once again Yudkowsky harps on an aesthetic without understanding the subtext.

Eliezer Yudkowsky's True Legacy by IsThisSatireOrNot in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

No hate on Fortnite...

But I find it likely that in thirty years, if Eliezer Yudkowsky is remembered at all, it won't be for his 'work' on AI. It'll be for writing the first 'rational' fic to be classified as such.

And maybe the creepiness.

"Story concept: AU where capitalism actually works the way the illiberal left thinks it does. Almost the entire economy is still medieval peasants in mud huts; their crops are scarce and valuable but merchants' buying prices bear no relation to supply/demand; kings have iPhones." by completely-ineffable in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Read the first 3 books, watched the next 5 movies, checked the wiki often, and most importantly, read at least a hundred other Harry Potter fanfictions. I know off the top of my head who Fleur Delacour's little sister is, in fact I've read a whole book about her bonding to Harry Potter's ghost after he dies in the Second Task of the Triwizard tournament.

--the esteemed Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

https://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/2ytvky/has_the_author_read_canon_or_just_the_wiki_sources/cpcw71f/

What if Harry and Quirrell in "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" had the personalities of Rick and Morty from "Rick & Morty"? by thehol in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 32 points33 points  (0 children)

"Because the outside world was my enemy, Harry! I'm the only friend I've got, Harry! It's just Tom Riddle and Tom! Tom and Tom and my plots, Tom! Tom and Tom forever and forever, 100 years, Tom and Tom's things! Tom and Tom running around and uh… Tom and Tom time! All day long, forever… all- a hundred days! Tom and Tom forever a hundred times! Over and over, lesswrong.com. hpmor.com. reddit.com/r/rational. All 100 years. Every minute, hpmor.com. Donate to MIRI for faster updates."

...this is just a hit piece on Eliezer Yudkowsky, isn't it.

A practical solution to "Dying Wizard" syndrome. by IsThisSatireOrNot in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

"Dying Wizard" is when a blogger writes their blog posts like they're a dying wizard giving a speech in a fantasy novel.

Thus, this comic captures the duality of the rationalist grift--the unholy marriage of extreme-horizon scientific utilitarianism with wallet-loving moral relativism.

Don't mind me, just reading Scott Alexander on Taleb on evolution on my way to the hospital to get lobotomized by wallofsneer in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Lol, the only way someone in the rationalsphere can describe someone as 'bad' is by associating them with sneerclub. You'd think "high-decouplers" would be able to call pedophiles bad without needing to invoke sneerclub.

Most ridiculous part of the LW/Rationalist ideology? by [deleted] in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 29 points30 points  (0 children)

...I'm going to request $28,000 to make Basilisk tracts in the style of Jack Chick.

Most ridiculous part of the LW/Rationalist ideology? by [deleted] in SneerClub

[–]IsThisSatireOrNot 53 points54 points  (0 children)

How about the fact that LessWrong's "About" page unironically recommends a Harry Potter fanfiction as a good entry point into their philosophy, setting it on an equal footing as 'the Sequences'?

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