"The CCP is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler was elected" is... a take
Gonna put that down to really really bad historical knowledge
A markov chain is smarter than the current POTUS.
NGL the AI generated image make DG look cool AF
Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can't influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.
I've actually read Starship Troopers a long time ago and it's probably not too far out of line politically from other "silver age" SF. Heinlein had a weird career...
FWIW from memory Samuel R Delany (Black gay SF author) wrote somewhere that the realization that Johnny Rico was from the Philippines (he speaks Tagalog near the end) was very liberating for him personally as a form of inclusion. And Heinlein could probably truthfully state the only way he was "racist" was he was against the Bugs but for the entire human race.
The movies' lack of any PoC character whatsoever was probably Verhoven's way of playing with the Nazi imagery.
I don't believe this is a correct use of a diaeresis: "preöccupied" (and not just because it looks ridiculous if you know Swedish)
Lord knows I'm not a sports guy, but even I believe a big fascination with the entire field is that someone can get the combination of physical talent and mental fortitude to make it to the top. And even at the top, like top-level soccer where basically every player, even the substitutes, are way better than the average 5-a-side player, there are transcendent talents that people talk about for decades to come.
Performance-enhancing drugs take away a lot of that fascination. It's literally cheating which is why everyone, not just government killjoys but the fans themselves hate it with a passion.
I believe there's a short SF story about a future like this, where young poor kids are suckered into pumping themselves full of PEs and competing for the benefit of "research", with their inevitable deaths and invalidity just confirming the experiments failures.
To make this work, the organizers will have to have people competing who are already near the top, to deliver those jaw-dropping results for the TV networks, but these people would understand that it's a one-way street. If the even flames out or is banned in multiple countries, they're barred from ever competing in normal events again. It's a libertarian pipe-dream, but then ofcourse Thiel backs it.
They're like grade school kids still trying to put on the same amateur music show 10 years later and wondering why no-one is applauding.
Love how the poster frames making an apology not as "the ethically and morally right thing to do" but as "this one weird trick will increase your karma on LW"
I'm really interested in this book. Lewis has gotten a lot of flack for (allegedly) not portraying SBF as a scheming monster, but as most of that flack has come from people losing crypto money, I really can't feel anything but schadenfreude. It would be hilarious if SBF beat the rap, even though he'd be in real danger from unhinged lunatics wanting revenge.
Here's a New Yorker piece about his viewpoint: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/michael-lewiss-big-contrarian-bet
From what I hear about the trial it ain't going SBF's way however.
Edit Molly White is covering the trial: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/ftx-defrauded-its-customers-says
The defense team asked [a witness] whether he understood that cryptocurrencies were volatile and risky, which he said he did; however, prosecutors later gave him the opportunity to clarify that he believed crypto to be risky because of his tokens’ volatility, not because FTX might disappear with the tokens entirely.
LMFAO
it’s only a matter of time until big, scary armed guys come for me, as they came for so many other nerdy misfits.
Citation most definitely needed.
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LW was pushing this book hard - multiple posts by Habryka, custom color scheme on the front page. Granted, it's perfectly in line with the site's "mission" but several people commented on it.
In the meantime, I hope Nate finds happiness as an author b/c he doesn't seem to find it by trying to use DOOM as a pretext to get laid:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dqSwccGTWyBgxrR58/turntrout-s-shortform-feed?commentId=9tK6DiFxk7bGqNMdT