[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Deep into that diatribe:

Some people's moral intuitions are that nonexistence is preferable to, or not obviously worse than, existence in a less-than-ideal setting. I wholly reject this intuition, and looking at the record of the persistence of life in the face of adversity, belong to a heritage of those who have, time and time again, rejected it. Life is Good.

What a disgustingly privileged thing to say. People have survived in shitty situations so therefore more children in poverty is axiomatically good? ~~This guy deserves poverty.~~ (edit: maybe that's a bit too far but I fucking hate this guy)

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

I think you're being too generous. What they wanted to say is "There are genetic traits associated with intelligence." However, not inserting probability distributions in every fucking sentence is a class 2 misdemeanor in Rat circles, hence what was written.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

I guess good on you for not having the will to analyze anything beyond the surface level?

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

yeah keep arguing against shit no one ever says, top tier discourse my dude

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

listened to this, they do a great job of breaking down the berniecrat -> orangeman pipeline, characterizing it as mainly driven by vibes and unserious thought.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago

yeah that one is kind of funny, but at the end of the day it fits right in the arguments that right wingers can't make memes-- the joke is cruelty.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

When you feed the world to a technocapitalist machine that produces misery and CO2, the price tag of a good night of sleep rises to donating some of that sweet, sweet value to save a few people from getting malaria.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

Jesus fuck, I hate myself so I couldn't help but take a peek. The first comment says "TL;DR but I will still counterargue!" The OP then responds "that's stupid" and gets slapped by the admin for personal attacks. So basically, you can make personal attacks if your account has a history of agreeing with the zeitgeist and you veil them behind enough qualifiers. What an absolute joke of a message board.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

This is (not) the greatest essay in the world, no. This is just a tribute.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

even technical communities use discord now. It's SO fucking over.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

More like "People want things and hurt if they don't get them. Also, look at me saying things like utility function! Function is math! Math is smart. I am smart! Isn't that so cool?"

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

It would be extremely convenient for Sam "16 million dollar penthouse" Bankman-Fried if this whole deal was just an "oopsie, silly me." I get the schadenfreude angle but this guy totally doesn't deserve freedom.

What I'm the most thrilled about, however, is how he has effectively dismantled the rational case for "effective altruism" by showing how mind-bogglingly stupid the idea "earn to give" is. It's so easy to shut them down now with 3 magic letters: SBF

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