[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago

TRUE FACT: Matt Yglesias is the reason Bluesky has a block function

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

if only he'd written in quatrains!

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

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

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

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

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

"now do arbitrary homework for me"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 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 13 points 1 year ago

the comments are even dumber

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

a whore on stage, a comedian in bed

[-] 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

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

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

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we're pretty sure he really did just get kicked for not being enough of an AI doomsday cultist

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https://read.easypeasymethod.org/

"a rewrite of Allen Carr’s EasyWay to Quit Smoking for pornography"

115 page PDF, god help us

ends with recommendation for mercury chelation and reading a Red Pill manifesto

this is precisely who I'd expect to use Urbit

(spotted by gzt)

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The Future of Sovereign AI

We still don’t know just how important and disruptive artificial intelligence will be, but one thing seems clear: the power of AI should not remained cordoned off by centralized companies. Our panelists—Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, Native Planet’s ~mopfel-winrux, Tlon’s Lukas Buhler, along with @mogmachine from Bittensor and David Capone from Harmless AI—are the perfect team to explore the possibilities unlocked by more sovereign, decentralized, and open AI.

[A bitcoiner, an ancap, a 3-D gun printer, an alt-righter, the founder of Hatreon and a convicted kiddle fucker walk into a bar. The barman picks up a baseball bat and says "get the fuck out of my bar, Cody."]

Cancelling the Culture Industry

In a world of moral totalitarianism, sometimes freedom looks like a short story about sex tourism in the Philippines. In this panel, author Sam Frank hosts MRB editor in chief Noah Kumin, romance writer Delicious Tacos, sex detective Magdalene Taylor and frog champion Lomez of Passage Press. Join them for a freewheeling discussion of saying whatever they want while evading the digital hall monitors.#

[not being able to live within five hundred feet of a school is a small price to pay for true freedom]

Securing Urbit

How do we make Urbit secure? And what does a secure Urbit look like? The great promise of Urbit has always been that it can provide a sovereign computing platform for the individual—a means by which to do everything you would want to do on a computer without giving up your data. For that dream to be fulfilled, Urbit should be as secure as your crypto hardware wallet—perhaps moreso. Moderated by Rikard Hjort, Urbit experts Logan Allen, and Joe Bryan discuss with Urbit fan and cybersecurity expert Ryan Lackey.

[as secure as a crypto hardware wallet, you say]

Rebooting the Arts

The culture war is over—Culture lost. Now it’s a race to build a new one. Media whisperer Ryan Lambert leads a conversation with Play Nice founder/impresario Hadrian Belove. trend forecaster Sean Monahan, and controversial art-doc collective Kirac. They discuss how to win the culture race, and create a new arts ecosystem out of the rubble.

[the answer is to get Peter Thiel to try to magic up Dimes Square out of nothing, isn't it?]

How to Fund a New World

Cosimo de Medici persuaded Benvenuto Cellini, the Florentine sculptor, to enter his service by writing him a letter which concluded, 'Come, I will choke you with gold.' Join UF Director of Markets Andrew Kim as he discusses how to get more gold onto Urbit with Jake Brukhman of Coinfund, Jae Yang of Tacen, @BacktheBunny from RabbitX and Evan Fisher of Portal VC.

[the answer's still Thiel, isn't it?]

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

lol, the Patient Funded Trial scam

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(whatever the poster looks like and wherever they live, their personality is a scrawny nerd in a basement)

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  • original post detailing mistreatment of employees
  • meta post about how a good rationalist should correctly epistemically assess the fairness of the post cataloguing and confirming the bad behaviour

tl;dr these fucking guys

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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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