[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

ding ding ding!

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

Yarvin's reptile enthusiasm may be the first endearing thing I've heard about him, ever.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

And wow, some people really do idolize this Yarvin dude.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago

you can tell at a glance which subculture wrote this, and filled the references with preprints and conference proceedings

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I actually don’t find this a bad post

I fuckin' do, it looks like disingenuous trash sneaking in a pile of awfulness under cover of a facially plausible argument that was obviously never going to reach these bozos, as the comments amply demonstrate

but i'm sure titotal (who is active here) will be along any moment to explain how we've got him wrong

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

always heartwarming when you see how nazis hate each other as much as they hate the rest of us

there's an I Don't Speak German where Daniel talks about some Nazi streamer who is outraged that the Left have this magic hack of being nice and helpful to each other and it's totally unfair

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago

regulatory parkour

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago

"Soros bucks" is particularly marvellous. Literally all these guys fund thinktanks that promote their important billionaire views. Thiel, funding this stuff is basically his hobby. Is Soros just much more effective than all of them?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago

oh hey! Remember the Initiative Q thing that spammed your social media a few years ago?

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/06/24/initiative-q-a-non-crypto-private-currency-marketed-by-pyramid-scheme/

yeah, that was Saar Wilf's too

(that article is the single most-read thing I've ever written btw, with >250k views)

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago

eventually

pretty sure it was a journey of a few millimetres

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

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

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this btw is why we now see some of the TPOT rationalists microdosing street meth as a substitute. also that they're idiots, of course.

somehow this man still has a medical license

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you have to read down a bit, but really, I'm apparently still the Satan figure. awesome.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

figures 1-4: grimes fails a Turing test against herself

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yes really, that’s literally the title of the post. (archive copy, older archive copy) LessWrong goes full Motte.

this was originally a LW front-page post, and was demoted to personal blog when it proved unpopular. it peaked at +10, dropped to -6 and is +17 right now.

but if anyone tries to make out this isn’t a normative rationalist: this guy, Michael “Valentine” Smith, is a cofounder of CFAR (the Center for Applied Rationality), a LessWrong offshoot that started being about how to do rational thinking … and finally admitted it was about “AI Risk”

this post is the Rationalist brain boys, the same guys who did FTX and Effective Altruism, going full IQ-Anon wondering how the market could fail so badly as not to care what weird disaster assholes think. this is the real Basilisk.

when they’re not spending charity money on buying themselves castles, this is what concerns the modern rationalist

several commenters answered “uh, the customers.” and tried to explain the concept of markets to OP, and how corporations like selling stuff to normal people and not just to barely-crypto-fash. they were duly downvoted to -20 by valiant culture warriors who weren’t putting up with that sort of SJW nonsense.

comment by author, who thinks “hard woke” is not only a thing, but a thing that profit-making corporations do so as not to make a profit: “For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t describe myself as leaning right.” lol ok dude

right-wingers really don’t believe in, or even understand, capitalism or markets at all. they believe in hierarchy. that’s what’s offended this dipshit.

now, you might think LessWrong Rationalists, Slate Star Codex readers, etc. tend towards behaving functionally indistinguishably from Nazis, but that’s only because they work so hard at learning from their neoreactionary comrades to reach that stage

why say in 10,000 words what you can say in 14

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