Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024
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Rationalist debatelord org Rootclaim, who lost a $100K bet by failing to defend covid lab leak theory against a random ACX commenter, will now debate millionaire covid vaccine truther Steve Kirsch on whether covid vaccines killed more people than they saved, the loser gives up $1M.
On would assume this to be a slam dunk, but then again one would assume the people who founded an entire organization about establishing ground truths via rationalist debate would actually be good at debating and evaluating evidence.
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Debating post-truth weirdos for large sums of money may seem like a good business idea at first, until you realize how insufferable the debate format is (and how no one normal would judge such a thing).
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I mean, the whole point of declaring this era post-truth is that these people have basically opted out of consensus reality.
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So many people got the wrong message from mythbusters. The catchphrase was a joke people
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I’m guessing these people were JAQing off hard enough that they got kicked out of their local Oxford-style debate org and had to start their own.
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