[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago

"I'm microdosing faster"

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

if only he'd written in quatrains!

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

ding ding ding!

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

so sorry that you have to soil your diodes with these shitheads' tamagotchis

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

At several points, if Sam's lawyer had jumped across the courtroom and knocked him out with a single punch to the face, it would have been best fulfilling their duty to their client and as officers of the court.

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

regulatory parkour

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

Update: I looked up math pet and it was not at all what I had envisioned.

welcome to Awful Systems! here's your advil

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I'm called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture. But every day I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will be - great

read the whole thread, her responses are even worse

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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.

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an entirely vibes-based literary treatment of an amateur philosophy scary campfire story, continuing in the comments

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Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!

oh boy

archive: https://archive.is/uOP4y

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warning: seriously nasty narcissism at length

archive: https://archive.is/eoXQj

this is a response to the post discussed in: https://awful.systems/post/220620

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

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For your utter delight and mine.

The original genesis appears to have been these guys rambling on Twitter shortly before one of them posted the first essay.

cheers to @earthquake@lemm.ee and @blakestacey for finding these

this is a worse understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics than creationists.

they don't name Nick Land as their origin, but do generally credit him as the creator of accelerationism, and also their ideas on the inevitability of techno-capitalism are straight out of "The Dark Enlightenment" by Land.

so firstly, I blame El Sandifer for speaking this fucking neutron star of stupidity into existence, and secondly myself for understanding most of this orchestra of neoreactionary dog whistles.

thirdly, these fuckers all talk like Sephiroth.

I feel like I should write it up to explain the AI grifter e/acc thing, but also it's hard to explain this nonsense without a #include of Neoreaction A Basilisk and I'm not sure the centrist finance types of my readership have that much patience, nor that I do.

EDIT: urgh. Vitalik Buterin is philosophising again. d/acc. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html "Special thanks to" several rationalists

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

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

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