Brian David
Web developer, mostly front-end. Late-diagnosed #AuDHD.
Mostly will comment on or re-boost things related to web-dev, autism and ADHD.
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Brian David@hachyderm.ioto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 20242·1 year ago@sailor_sega_saturn @rook It always annoyed me that the super secret death spot in that Batman episode ended up being in the most blindingly obvious place.
Brian David@hachyderm.ioto SneerClub@awful.systems•The Cult of AI (including some fan favourites)2·1 year ago@Architeuthis @tante I often hear it said that the TREACLE crowd is a section of early 2000s Internet atheists that went on to invent their own god, but I don’t think it gets pointed out enough how much stupider their belief system is compared to the religions they constantly mock.
Brian David@hachyderm.ioto SneerClub@awful.systems•that time Scott told the rationalists how adderall would turn them into geniuses of finance and even named specific rationalists he thought should get into adderall5·2 years ago@sinedpick @self Just referring to your comment (haven’t watched the video) I completely agree that there is a view among some crowds that psychedelic experiences have moral and psychological benefits in and of themselves. Which is definitely not the case, and can lead some people to some real bad places.
Brian David@hachyderm.ioto SneerClub@awful.systems•Yudkowsky advises his fellow Effective Altruists to take the FTX money and run. For the sake of charity, you understand.6·2 years ago@dgerard How in the world can anyone read anything like this and get to the end, much less respect the person who wrote it?
Brian David@hachyderm.ioto SneerClub@awful.systems•i guess sneerclub must just hate understanding things. yes, that must be it.4·2 years ago@naevaTheRat @dgerard People criticizing rationalism aren’t suggesting we can’t understand things, but we do often suggest we can’t understand everything, or even some of the specific things rationalists claim to understand.
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