I feel exactly the same.

Every contributor to the mag has an Urbit handle. Enough said.

It's fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from "I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay" to "no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM"

Bring back röckdöts!

(Funniest example of that is the band Tröjan, which literally means "the sweater" in Swedish)

For a while there, when it looked as if only the rich were gonna be able to source R95 masks and everyone else was gonna die, the SV elite were all aboard with this being the new Black Death. As soon as it became apparent that the only way to deal with it was through massive government support they did a 180 and started talking about how it wasn't that bad after all.

I read "epilogenic" as "like an epilogue".

These dudes wouldn't recognize culture if unsafed its Browning and shot them in the kneecaps.

Tradcaths gonna tradcath, but it's interesting he feels he can reach the EA audience with his views.

You are doing the Robot God's work here, my friend.

An aside - what will EY do when/if ole Muskovitch slams the paywall down on the smoking ruins of ExTwitter? All these perfectly crafted missives, lost from plebeian view. Such a tragedy.

Buried in the google drive is a note that this does not remove the need for brushing teeth, but it just notes that not doing that will give you bad breath.

In fact I believe that this is the true cause of this not being a product - people will still need to brush their teeth for other reasons than preventing cavities. If brushing teeth correctly currently lessens the risk of both caries and periodontal disease, having a shot that removes the risk of caries could conceivably mean less conscientious tooth care, which increases the risk of gum problems.

tbh I read the statement about epistemic status as ironic. I was disabused of this notion rapidly.

A bad habit rationalism teaches is to treat a stock verbiage of polite and open discussion as on the one hand (a) integral to productive conversation, and (b) automatically generative of productive conversation. But people aren’t like that, because people are in general really smart listeners (and readers) when it comes to figuring out what is stock verbiage and what is meant in earnest.

Thanks for articulating this.

So LW is just a fanfic appreciation forum, got it.