Exactly. It's one thing to claim "nice comes from Latin nescius meaning ignorant therefore nice means stupid" and another to say "octopus and helicopter mean the same thing because helicopter comes from helico- meaning helical or spiral and pter meaning wing."

Hehe, Nescius Moldbug.

8kw is rookie numbers. That's like a median Eliezer tweet.

Oh no, it's a very serious (in context of a psychological tragedy sci-fi anime with bionic mecha fighting lovecraftian kaiju) paramilitary national (or maybe a supranational) goverment body affiliated with a shadowy cabal of conspirators.

Its logo is also quite heavily featured on the unscalable mountains of promotional merchandise for the franchise, so it's an easy thing to name drop if you don't know or remember much from the show but want to feel like you're making a deep cut reference because you remember the name from a coffee mug you have or something.

A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must ~~never~~ always make a management decision

The killer bots are running on Apple platforms so programming them in Swift is the natural choice.

OTOH "mediocre dunces" is an amazing phrase and I will continue to refer to TREACLES as such.

Imagine one day Dan Gackle of Hacker News fame banned the Linus Tech Tips guy for sockpuppeting but actually you were the sockpuppet. Also suppose Terry A. Davis were still alive so you went to ask him how to sockpuppet like a veteran, but instead you run into Timnit Gebru, who is also a terrorist. She calls you pronouns and slurs like TESCREAL and your pants drop to your ankles and everyone is laughing at you and also Terry calls you the N word because you don't know how to write a compiler. Then you turn around and see Scott Siskind and Joanne Rowling and they're also laughing at you and you start to cry.

Anyway you'd be really upset.

I'm proud of them for independently discovering the idea of "insincere apology". Not to brag but I discovered this idea as a preteen. While the technique per se failed to prove itself as useful as I had expected, it proved a useful intermediate step in developing a more sophisticated model of other people as actual moral and social agents who could not always be fooled by magic incantations. On the other hand, I took inspiration from my peers to mold the crude form of insincere apology into a sarcastic tool for exhibiting disrespect towards contemptible people.

Deepest apologies to any rationalists who find my deliberate and unrepentant condescension towards them objectionable. I pwomise weally hawd not to do it again. 🥺

You have a moral obligation to donate your excess academic fame and credibility to younger women willing to fuck you, if it is within your means.

infinite lives in their head with every female service that made the mistake of smiling

The basilisk is real!

When you actually work in STEM things you often get to work and spend time with people outside STEM as well and often end up realizing their work is challenging, valuable and not something you can do better than them just because you still remember the quadratic formula long after high school.

Maybe this place needs a sister community SNEARCULT.