As a non-denominational leftist, liberalism is poison and leads to fascism without intervention. So yeah this tracks

If we’re framing this as a breakup, david won the breakup.

For the sake of a yudzillion dust specks, what’s another castle?

neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

Please don’t remind me about my miserable time on dating apps.

post begins with Atlas Shrugged excerpt

ah fuck guess I'm reading this one.

69 minute read

at least there's that.

Not saying good morning because you are homophobic: ✋😔

Not saying good morning because you avoid human interaction in general: ☝️😊

"Editing? Where we're going, we don't need editing!" - Absolutely not Eliezer. Too succinct.

In my pursuit of clarity and precision, the art of composition itself becomes a meticulous process of refining ideas. Each word is a deliberate stroke, contributing to the coherence of thought, rendering traditional editing superfluous. The absence of formal editing is a deliberate choice, reflecting the belief that the initial act of creation captures the most authentic expression of my intellectual journey.

Now that is what yud^1^ might say.

1: By Yud I mean a 99.9% accurate simulation of Yud using ChatGPT, which, according to rationalist doctrine, is the same thing.

Reading the article is like seeing a guy at a party pick up a guitar, announce he’s going to play wonderwall, but for whatever reason he starts holding the guitar like a trumpet, blowing on the headstock and everything. There’s no indication that this is a joke. A crowd forms and they love it, tunelessly and arrhythmically chanting “wonder wall! Wonder wall!” Over and over. It’s not even part of the song. You see him later making out in a puddle, people still chanting “wonder wall!” at the puddle. Your only recourse is to set the couch on fire and leave.

Not a huge distance to travel from Bayesian reasoning to Stochastic terrorism

That being said, I think the article conflates a bit "rationalists", "effective altruists" and "longtermists". I'm pretty sure the boundaries between the groups are very blurry, but I guess for reasons of fairness one should still make an attempt to distinguish them.

A rationalist, an effective altruist, and a longtermist walk into a bar. He says, "ouch."

Brown also kept a private collection of “bad books,” as one of those former staffers described them, that he would only share with someone he thought was likely to be on the same ideological page.

Having a hard time thinking about what books could have been in this collection. You could say it’s my struggle.

More like you say they’re T-800 prototypes, and I go in and see TI-84s.