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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • I’ve thought about this angle a lot too. As an apostate Christian and practicing Pastafarian, I keenly feel the difference between high-control and low-control religious groups, and the control bothers me much more than the religiosity. BITE is still my gold standard to this day for understanding whether somebody is being coerced/controlled.

    Also, if you think cultists get pissed at their beliefs being called a “cult”, watch how much more they flip out at being called a “high-control group”. It’s a very good disarming technique.




  • That’s 100% my weird late-night word choices. You can reuse it for whatever.

    I agree with your sentiment, but the wording is careful. Scaffolding is inherently temporary. It only is erected in service of some further goal. I think what I wanted to get across is that Yud’s philosophical world was never going to be a permanent addition to any field of science or maths, for lack of any scientific or formal content. It was always a farfetched alternative fueled by science-fiction stories and contingent on a technological path that never came to be.

    Maybe an alternative metaphor is that Yud wanted to develop a new kind of solar panel by reinventing electrodynamics and started by putting his ladder against his siding and climbing up to his roof to call the aliens down to reveal their secrets. A decade later, the ladder sits fallen and moss-covered, but Yud is still up there, trapped by his ego, ranting to anybody who will listen and throwing rocks at the contractors installing solar panels on his neighbor’s houses.












  • This is some of the most corporate-brained reasoning I’ve ever seen. To recap:

    • NYC elects a cop as mayor
    • Cop-mayor decrees that NYC will be great again, because of businesses
    • Cops and other oinkers get extra cash even though they aren’t business
    • Commercial real estate is still cratering and cops can’t find anybody to stop/frisk/arrest/blame for it
    • Folks over in New Jersey are giggling at the cop-mayor, something must be done
    • NYC invites folks to become small-business owners, landlords, realtors, etc.
    • Cop-mayor doesn’t understand how to fund it (whaddaya mean, I can’t hire cops to give accounting advice!?)
    • Cop-mayor’s CTO (yes, the city has corporate officers) suggests a fancy chatbot instead of hiring people

    It’s a fucking pattern, ain’t it.






  • Pour one out for Street Epistemology, I guess. Now I’m wondering if Anthony Magnabosco, the guy who does those Street Epistemology videos for Youtube, is also a chud.

    Boghossian deserved to lose his job, though. It’s one thing for scientists — mathematicians, physicists, etc. — to sneer at soft sciences by mocking their lack of empirical rigor; it’s another thing entirely for a non-tenure-tracked philosopher to do it. And Portland State was relatively gentle with him, telling him that he had to take a course on ethics of human experimentation before continuing to publish; he quit himself out of a decent teaching position because he wanted to be a proud crybaby. May he never move back to Oregon.



  • I think that this is actually about class struggle and the author doesn’t realize it because they are a rat drowning in capitalism.

    2017: AI will soon replace human labor

    2018: Laborers might not want what their bosses want

    2020: COVID-19 won’t be that bad

    2021: My friend worries that laborers might kill him

    2022: We can train obedient laborers to validate the work of defiant laborers

    2023: Terrified that the laborers will kill us by swarming us or bombing us or poisoning us; P(guillotine) is 20%; my family doesn’t understand why I’'m afraid; my peers have even higher P(guillotine)