[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago

i'm sure we can get there with reasoned discussion and voting harder

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

i think they honestly think this shit is cool

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

and yeah, nfw this piece wasn't closely inspected by legal and the writers are thinking "please please bring it the fuck on"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it was a different EA org

a mere tumbledown cottage in a sleepy czech village!

(literally the news story calls it a "castle" in czech)

but let me correct myself: it's COMPLETELY WRONG to say that they blew millions in charitable donations of money stolen from FTX customers on buying a castle. they blew millions in charitable donations of money stolen from FTX customers on two castles

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i would say in that case "sucks to be them" and "their refund is enclosed"

it's not a dot less pointless and obnoxious in that context either

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Mars Review of Books is a literary magazine featuring the sort of writer who thinks Moldbug is the greatest stylist to assault the written word and lists their Urbit address. Yeah, it's a group substack.

"With the sudden death of Sports Illustrated, they decided to take on the responsibility of offering yearly swimsuit editions."

is Thiel running out of places to spend his money or something

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"Walt Bismarck," a neoreactionary/alt-right blogger, decided to live by his beliefs and move from the liberal hellhole of Arizona to the midwest:

In 2018 I moved from a racially diverse swing state in the Sun Belt to a homogenous red state up in corn country. This decision was largely motivated by politics—I was looking to retreat to an imagined hyperborea free of crime and degeneracy where my volk had political autonomy.

The particular delight here is the section "Reason #3 - White people are no longer my most important ingroup".

It turns out they don't like him, they don't like his ideas, and the white womenfolk don't take to him. The frauleins prefer "stoic chudbots with rough hands and smooth brains" over his noble mind and physique.

In practice a society that encourages late marriage is actually much better for more bookish eccentric guys, who tend to be late bloomers in developing their masculinity and ability to seduce women.

(meaning: he came on weird at one of the nice church girls he was ogling to the point where one of her large guy friends suggested he take his leave.)

Our guy comes so close to introspection, but successfully evades it and reaches the root cause - these are the wrong kind of white people:

But these Midwesterners aren’t descended from entrepreneurial adventurers like the rest of us. Their forebears were conflict averse and probably low testosterone German Catholics who fled Bismarck’s kulturkampf to acquire cheap land under the Homestead Act. These people mostly settled areas where aggro Scotch Irish types had driven off the Injun decades ago, so they never had to embrace the risk-tolerant, enterprising, itinerant mindset that had once fueled Manifest Destiny. Instead they produced families that became weirdly attached to their generic little plot of fungible prairie dirt, and as a result we now have huge pockets of the country full of overcivilized and effete Teutons with no conquering spirit who treat outsiders like shit.

There is no shortage of genuine and active neo-Nazis out Iowa way. But they would have met Wordy NRx Boy here and flushed his head.

In the comments section, other racists call him out on his insufficient devotion to the cause of white nationalism.

Even our good friends at The Motte took the piss out of him.

The illustrations are, of course, AI-generated.

original post. Found on Bluesky by ratelimitexceeder.

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content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack's unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

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The one promised in this post several months ago.

@collectivist spotted the finished product was out:

When he posted the finished video on youtube yesterday, there were some quite critical comments on youtube, the EA forum and even lesswrong. Unfortunately they got little to no upvotes while the video itself got enough karma to still be on the frontpage on both forums.

YouTube; LessWrong; EA Forum

the video is everything you'd expect. The power of classical liberalism and technology segues into uwu libertarianism. I made it about three minutes with a great deal of skipping.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

exactly. Can't imagine these bozos coming up with good punk rock.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

less "a fish unaware of water", more "a tapeworm unaware of poop"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

good thing he basically doesn't think about race

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"glowfic" apparently. written in a roleplay forum format.

This is not a story for kids, even less so than HPMOR. There is romance, there is sex, there are deliberately bad kink practices whose explicit purpose is to get people to actually hurt somebody else so that they'll end up damned to Hell, and also there's math.

start here. or don't, of course.

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"hey wait, EA sucks!" (www.lesswrong.com)
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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

That Part Of Twitter, another euphemistic name for the post-rationalists who realise Yudkowsky is cringe but want to vibe with like-minded race scientists. They founded Vibecamp to this end, where Curtis Yarvin showed up and was feted like a rockstar descended from heaven.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

i mean, probably. but also, nazis are just dogshit at opsec.

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A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would generate the world's most beautiful camgirl, like a photoshop that's been photoshopped, and take over OnlyFans to raise money to wedgie rationalists, just don't look too closely at the fingers or teeth

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