Sneer Club is one of the most nasty, uncharitable, and bad-faith subs out there these days. They generally hate HN, as well. I think any community which exists solely to make cheap shots at another community is poison at its core, SC’s parasocial relationship with LW is a perfect example.

N-gate was among the only things that made this website worth reading. They solely existed to make "cheap shots" at HN. If that's "poison", than I don't want an antidote!

What happens if you feed the n-gate archive to an LLM and ask it to generate commentary on current HN posts in the same style?

Just wanted to say fantastic substack writing. Thanks for linking as I go down this rabbit hole

Yeah! I devoured the entire series of posts in one go back then, I had no idea about all the people and their ties. Plus it was a super engaging read, I could imagine being there.

I especially enjoy how the author from the substack series described the singularity as “The Rapture of the Nerds”.

I really loved the language describing the singularity as "an inescapable runaway feedback loop which leads to the ascension of an enemy god". Beautiful.

Holy shit, there are 7 chapters to that last one. Chapter 1 is fucking mind-blowing. I could never figure out why they were obsessed with Roko's basilisk but it makes total sense now considering how it all started.

This is such an epic unbelievable story. We live in this world?

Chapter 6 covers how StarSlateCodex comes into the picture, by the way. I always wondered that too.