RPM? Like how fast you can spin?

Fuck yeah I’m a finnish DF genius

Janelle was gracious enough to put her on Pynk as well!

ah, yes, I forgot to put in a second footnote about my neighbour Brian. We'd call the cops but it turns out he's the local sheriff.

:/

Ahh, gotcha. This is what I get for not being active on the birdsite.

If I had to pick a mathematical model, it'd be a drunken walk.

my bad. When I said “class consciousness” I meant a full mental transformation to radical communism, words are difficult

to anyone else that'd be a big oof but to scott, it is tuesday

Ok, so to be clear, I would (perhaps naively) prefer it if we didn't have charities/NGOs and that governments would handle solving problems and helping people entirely. Of course, this is reductive; there are probably plenty of spaces where NGOs and charities are better suited for approaching some issues.

That being said, while money (or a lack thereof) is the main issue in solving many problems, you still need all kinds of work to make it effective. In the case of malaria prevention, a cause EA deems to be cost-effective, you still need to pay staff to carry out logistics to deliver whatever nets or vaccines you buy with money. You wouldn't want someone incompetent at the helm; that could cause your cost-effectiveness to go down. And how do you incentivize competent people to stay in leadership positions? There are plenty of ways, but executive bonuses will be at the top of that list.

Anyway, my main issue with EA has gotta be how it launders false morality and money into morality. The false morality is the X-risk shit. The money is the money from working in tech.

IT IS THE PRESENT

A man intended to do acting work has been programmed to sell reverse mortgages to scam old people.

Someone must stop the madman who started it all.

If it weren't for the fact that many people in the ratspace are privileged, I'd feel sad for them. They are frogs in a well and crabs in a bucket. They exist in a solipsistic pit, thinking their worldview is built from pure logic and not their individual experience. This is all well-trodden ground- we know LW et al. is a cult. Such a strange and specific way to hamstring yourself, to self-lobotomise. Something something Plato's cave, qualia, lobster social hierarchy reference.

I don't know whether I should feel happy that I will have a sustainable snark receptacle for the near future or sad that the basilisk won't eventually consume itself tail-first.