I was not aware of this, failed my constitution roll, and have taken psychic damage

every so often, gear techs involved with filming interviews can do silently heroic things

I don't know if this is a case of that, but given the skin shine from reflections, whoever set this up wasn't trying overly hard to make him look good. good on 'em

but corpos can’t think long term

they can. it's just that, structurally, incentives are far more strongly geared to not do that in almost all cases.

"wikipediocracy"? fucking seriously?

for all the good and bad bits that wikipedia has (and there are notably many of the latter too), a rulership is definitely not among that list afaik. wtf.

(e: I'm going purely off the domain name there, but holy shit what a name)

my near-completely data-less guess: frozen in 2020 among many other things that year that had sudden stoppages, no clear reason to get unfrozen after that, and then when their ties and batshit ideas got a bit too popular recently it became easy to drop them like a rock

I'd watch this livestream

I haven’t checked but I wouldn’t be surprised if this came from the period when he was taking so many substances it fucked his health

"to any feds reading my feed: jk jk"

it is :chefskiss: exquisite that Thiel, of all the lot of them, is a snitch to usgov[0]

As a CHS, Thiel was assigned a code name and an internal serial number to track his reporting. The information he passed on about foreign contacts and Silicon Valley intrigue was reviewed

gotta wonder how many of the progenitors of the absurd are currently squirming uncomfortably. I hope it's a lot of them

[0] - funny in the "would be a self-contradiction against prior statements" way, but as usual all that stuff is windowdressing and the real mission is his personal gain

it's definitely the kind of thing that probably needs a whole lot more eyes on it than the gung-ho rats would be willing to give it

Just I think to summarize your beliefs

don't be puttin' words in my mouth yo

rationalists

this is a big set of very many people and lots of details

are wrong about a lot of things

many of them about many things, yes

and assholes

some, provably

And also the singularity (which predates yuds existence) is not in fact possible by the mechanism I outlined

whether it's the wet dream of kurzweil or yud or whoever else, doesn't matter? but as to the details.. you're engaging with this like the rats do (yes, told you, you only half escaped). you "set the example", and then "test the details"

just ... don't?

the siren song of this is "okay what if I change the details of the experiment slightly?"

we've had the trolley problem for ages, doesn't mean it's just "solved". you won't manage to "solve" whether the singularity can happen or not here, for the same reason

ugh god that guy

haven't heard the name in a while (thank fuck), but the last time around (~2019 iirc?) it was when applebaum was catching bans and all ~~jake's friends~~ the sexual assaulters pulled together to "protect"