I think he is trying to say something like “non-zero skew”, but really, he just means “I subscribe to race science, but only for the articles”.

TracingWoodgrains seems to have developed, in the process of leaving mormonism, an obsession with seeking out contrarianism. But more importantly, he openly admits to being racist/HBD “align[s] broadly with informed experts that the distribution of genetic traits associated with intelligence is non-zero” and “questions of genetics and IQ, including when it comes to group differences, are worth taking seriously”. As such, he only considers it “racism” if it’s “racial crassness and antagonism”.

• https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1al4rui/premium_episode_the_faas_bizarre_diversity/kqfo5dp/

In which TW names who he thinks is treating the topic with the seriousness it demands without sinking to crassness: our good good friend Cremieux.

Absolutely magnificent that this guy took a break from posting about OLED WLAN DNS SKU TCL and 800 ISO without bokah at like f/16 to come in here and chastise us for using in-group terms.

I guessed 500. That’s…that’s not how many.

From the comments: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/34pz6ni3muwPnenLS/why-so-many-racists-at-manifest?commentId=8KrQz3wcdHiDL2YfH

Gross, that whole thread is gross. A lot of promptfans in that thread seemingly experiencing pushback for the first time and they are baffled!

Trying to imagine what would a mirror universe Musk gets up to. I think any level of notoriety for him inevitably ends in execution after some failed palace intrigue.

I am so happy that we know with 100% certainty that Jack Dorsey saw this image and wasn’t mad. He was laughing, actually.

If this is what it takes for them to put more than the current perfunctory technically-not-mothballed amounts of money into nuclear fusion I’m going to laugh-cry into my pillow.

Good find! As far as I can tell, xcancel is run by unixfox, who also runs the invidious instance yewtube. They seem normal.

Rival Consoles - Howl
Sleep Party People - Heap of Ashes
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Some albums, mostly electronic, mostly experimental, that I’ve been enjoying.

None of the commenters seem to think keeping a safe work environment is part of work.

EA overdue to all be wiped out from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

I think that the movie is just a shallow criticism of Bush-era conservativism and 90s “trash TV” (that was already in decline by this time). Interrogating the implications of its scifi premise feels like not meeting the movie where it’s at, which is an optimism (alien to me) that the USA is fundamentally sound and only needs a nominally reasonable Joe American to keep the levers of power away from Those Guys.

I can’t say for sure that he thinks of genetics as bloodlines, and is concerned about its purity, but I can have my suspicions.

Tedium and logorrhea in the substack comments, as intended. I wonder how often people on LW use “ink spilled” and “column inches” to describe themselves.

You should watch the movie Idiocraty.

Grim stuff in that thread.

“10 to 20” so, 10. How many of the messages were just from Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei?

I want to tell myself that it’s probably a tiny scene of 10s to 100s, that it’s just vestigial cult mindset that what she went through is the real SV VC scene, and most of it is just the more pedestrian techbro buzzword pptx deck tedium …but even then, it’s still incredibly tragic for everyone who went through and is going through that manipulation and abuse.

Useful context: this is a followup to this post:

The thing about being active in the hacker house scene is you are accidentally signing up for a career as a shadow politician in the Silicon Valley startup scene. This process is insidious because you’re initially just signing up for a place to live and a nice community. But given the financial and social entanglement of startup networks, you are effectively signing yourself up for a job that is way more than meets the eye, and can be horribly distracting if you are not prepared for it. If you play your cards well, you can have an absurd amount of influence in fundraising and being privy to insider industry information. If you play your cards poorly, you will be blacklisted from the Valley. There is no safety net here. If I had known what I was getting myself into in my early twenties, I wouldn’t have signed up for it. But at the time, I had no idea. I just wanted to meet other AI researchers.

I’ve mind-merged with many of the top and rising players in the Valley. I’ve met some of the most interesting and brilliant people in the world who were playing at levels leagues beyond me. I leveled up my conception of what is possible.

But the dark side is dark. The hacker house scene disproportionately benefits men compared to women. Think of frat houses without Title IX or HR departments. Your peer group is your HR department. I cannot say that everyone I have met has been good or kind.

Socially, you are in the wild west. When I joined a more structured accelerator later, I was shocked by the amount of order and structure there was in comparison.

Very grim that she feels the need to couch her damning report with “some, I assume, are good people” for a paragraph. I guess that’s one of her survival strategies.