yes this one’s a sneerclub

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
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    He was previously involved in MetaMed, a 2012 attempt to use medicine to demonstrate the power of LessWrong rationalism: telling staff not trained in medicine that their job was to out-doctor actual doctors from first principles they had learned on an amateur philosophy forum.

    Microcosm of the entire ratosphere.

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      2012? So where’s the reporting of their success? 12 years is enough to literally finish med school and get a license, surely they achieved way more in that time with their massive rat dongs brains.

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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        Vassar founded MetaMed as a real-world test of the inherent superiority of LessWrong ideas. By 2015, he had his answer! they fail