Gotta love how the SRD thread has more comments and updoots than the original.

Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.

Edit see https://awful.systems/post/1587716

Y’all owe to yourself to read the extended copy

In 1923, the 7th Earl of Abingdon sold the Abbey to Raymond ffennell, who made further but comparatively modest alterations – these included the addition of the loggia at the south end, and a small extension to the rear of the butler’s house.

It’s like a parody of a certain English novel but real.

HN gets the news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065862

Choice entry: Oxford dumped them because CS Lewis taught there and he would have hated them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40066549

Also standard orange site/tech views on race and IQ...

You still need to lever that money by "buying" the people in power.

Right now there's really no mainstream politicians 100% on board with the weirdness of TESCREALs:

• mainstream Democrats - too wary of corporations, too eager to regulate
• pre-Trump GOP - maybe, but they're losing influence fast
• current Trump GOP - literally crazy, way too easy for TESCREALs to be painted as a satanic cult

From all I've read about classical fascism, misogyny is an integral part of it. It's just not something that stands out since the baseline for misogyny was much higher in the interwar years.

And worries about population was widespread outside fascism too. Two of the patron saints of Swedish social democracy, the Myrdals, were famous for their polemic Kris i befolkningsfrågan (1931, sv_SE) which led to decisions about child support and the construction of flats that were better for families with children.

“en positiv befolkningspolitik bör icke inriktas på att få enstaka fattiga familjer att föda ett mycket stort antal barn, utan att förmå det stora flertalet att föda låt oss säga t. ex. 3 barn.”

Transl: a positive population policy should not focus on having fewer poor families having very many children, rather that most families should have let's say 3 children.

Just the other day, a bunch of cryo tanks holding scientific specimens in a research hospital in Sweden failed and destroyed 30 years worth of data.

this is the picture they chose to use.

You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like.

NatSec types, being naturally paranoid and probably inherently rightwing, would probably be drawn to EA like flies on shit.

Incidentally, in Sterling’s Heavy Weather there’s a description of a group of dark triad negative EA types, where smart people are recruited to lower the population of the book’s grimdark future.

Whelp, looks like the wild-eyed non-profit AGI doomers were overruled by the Lords of Capital, as foretold. If this is the key to the robot god being created and enslaving us all, it is no more than fitting. Marx was wrong: the end stage of capitalism is a paperclip maximizer.

Yes, that's the other Scott. Scott Alexander tries to project an air of sexual superiority, while Scott Aaronsson's whole self-identification is that it's a literal gift from God that he managed to find someone to marry.

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.