“look surely not everything in America is explained by racism” “… OH COME ON NOW”

i must point out that i’ve barely interacted with the guy, if at all, and had previously considered him on the saner end of the rationalists from his reasonably coherent twitter

don’t forget the ones outraged they can’t use the Daily Mail or the Sun as sources

literally started by a guy who was banned for trying to set up a business to write wikipedia articles, and the evils of JIMMY WAAAAAAAAALES!!! still fill his spleen

ten years ago the wikipedia cranks had compiled lore on me, and some of it had a vague relation to anything that ever happened! Sure can’t wait to see what a good faith rationalist researcher comes up with

having a bad morning? look at this burnt down crypto mining operation (: (archive)

when I write the blockchain stuff, it’s like, here’s one paragraph of the actual thing going on, and here’s another thousand words to make it comprehensible

molly is delighted that people might stop telling her to

arguably we shoulda done it last year, but better late than never

mijn promptus hoorts

How do you deal with ADHD overload? Everyone knows that one: you PILE MORE SHIT ON TOP

https://pivot-to-ai.com - new site from Amy Castor and me, coming soon!

there’s nothing there yet, but we’re thinking just short posts about funny dumb AI bullshit. Web 3 Is Going Great, but it’s AI.

i assure you that we will absolutely pillage techtakes, but will have to write it in non-jargonised form for ordinary civilian sneers

BIG QUESTION: what’s a good WordPress theme? For a W3iGG style site with short posts and maybe occasional longer ones. Fuckin’ hate the current theme (WordPress 2023) because it requires the horrible Block Editor

They approximate by forming private companies that they then talk about as if they’re 501(c)3 charities and pay accordingly, or less - see our friends such as Kat Woods at Nonlinear here for a previous worked example.

same thing

yeah, I have posited previously that the California Ideology traces in a straight line through science fiction to Rudyard Kipling.

look this only pattern matches to a racism fan making a bad faith appeal to geek social fallacies

nah. under whatever name, the reactionary racists have been in the rationalist subculture since the '90s at latest

mastodon and bluesky are conspiracies by Big Janky Offbrand Domain Name

Lukeprog on LessWrong: Scientology has some good traits, I’m gonna talk at length about them but I’m not saying to copy them you understand

TW went on Hanania’s fucking podcast

these threads are made of lie down in a flea circus, get up denying the existence of fleas

not very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved

full time general purpose servant

and fucktoys on the side, this is EA after all