we'll get there, comment by comment! Or not.

he could have just said "as he calls himself", but nooo

must be woke mind virus, we don't even acknowledge race and iq, smdh

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately walking around outside talking to GPT-4o

and it loves me very much, I just need to send it money for its ticket over via western union

i remember reading on a Right Stuff forum a guy detail why even different varieties of white people genetically couldn't get on and then say "I'm not even racist." at that point i realised there were no racist statements in the english language

Torres has written about that hit piece! It's the only article on that substack, "Mark Fuentes" doesn't appear to exist, the material was partially published under another name first, the material ultimately originated in the EA forums, and the article is a favourite of EA attempted astroturfers.

anyway, that's the quality of article that titotal just happens to reach for first

he's just using it as an example of a supposedly well-written and convincing article about Torres you understand, and just happened to pick an odious lump of slander that originated in that very forum

FHI was basically funded by one guy, James Martin - a computer millionaire. (His Wikipedia article misses the source of his wealth, but he owned a private island and the Oxford Martin School donation was the largest single donation in Oxford University's history.) He died in 2013. Its days were numbered at that point. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/about/founder/

the culture war is VERY BIG on this one, I am sorry to have informed you

ACAB and abolish prisons, but we can leave finance cops and SBF until quite late in the process

come the fabulous gay luxury space communism future, when scarcity itself becomes all but obsolete, we will absolutely have to make it clear that, at the mind-buggeringly long and rambling cadre meetings discussing the disbursement of the few items that remain restricted, Sam's opinion is not invited

loved how Metz is literally just explaining his job in terms that make obvious sense, and the commenters go off to construct a stupendous conspiracy theory

also, like. we have the email where Scott confesses that he started SSC to promote reactionary ideas and race science. Zack has even posted about said email.

Funded by Thiel, so more on topic here than we might like

btw, this is the top mind who previously asked "where's the economic incentive for wokism coming from?"

he's also the cofounder of CFAR, in case anyone ever tries to make out he isn't a normative rationalist