Would me lying about doing impressions for YourNetworkIsHaunted’s cat be enough? I both dont know the cat and didnt actually do impressions? (Brb gotta update my dating profile).

I mean I even get that you would use some embellishment for entertainment value. But if the person who made the play writes you and corrects you, you should stop doing that, esp if you are doing the whole Rationalism. But yeah, that isn’t what the rich and powerful do, they make up shit and ignore corrections all the time. The power of being stubborn.

A while back somebody from themotte (when it still was on reddit) said about sneerclub vs themotte that the sneerclub wanted to do what is right, and they wanted to figure out what is true. And I often think about that when people in the Rationalist space do not really want to figure out what is true.

A jokingly Whorfian mind-lock, putting the jargon file in a sie like that and not converting it to a wiki. Second one, wanting to put everything in a wiki.

Not sure if smoothbrains and IQ levels are correlated, so perhaps 160IQ smoothies exist next to 100IQ smoothies. (Do agree the insult is perhaps not a thing we should be using (and this last sentence was also the only serious part of this post))

Yeah he was a prequel of whats to come re Gamers acting normally.

Yeah meant the seven suns series. Dune I need to get into the sequels first. (Think i might have read them decades ago). But yes the seven suns def had me persistent in reading out of a sort of spite and fools hope.

And after the horus heresy, im not sure I want another prequel, and rereading those is not an option.

And on a lol note, my parents got the newest Brown for themselves. The article about brown reminded me of the crash investigator book by Dan Simmons, shared a few of Browns writing flaws.

It was the guy angry about videogames. Just an ancient reference nothing special sadly. Just a random guy most people thought was wrong. Turns out GTA isnt a cop killing training simulator.

Of course the newest gta release is turning into a waiting for godot situation. (Apparently it was delayed again, not my game series, only liked the first two)

Yeah if you read the reviews the singularity is more a bit of a godot situation than something Yudi fears and has doubts over, which is a bit different than Yud who created the ‘we must make sure it is friendly’ institute earlier.

Bit like making a play about Jack Thompson but in the play he reviews video games.

That he keeps claiming it was about him, despite being told it wasn’t is just so odd.

But hey, mirrors how they talk about sneerclub as their personal nemesis (despite SC talking about all lot of them and now awful.systems being more general).

Yeah I recalled that was part of Frank Herberts thinking, but when I looked at a description of the books written by his son together with Kevin J. Anderson (of course (I read several of his saga of the seven suns books and I was not impressed with his ‘elemental aliens’ bit, but I in general have something against ‘the 4 elements stories’ as usually this isn’t that interesting as a plot device (avatar was great otoh). I did enjoy his star wars comics however. So I prob should give them another try esp as the series is now done)), and according to that Butler planned to be martyred and to intensify the war, so that is a bit of a different take on the revolutionary leader idea.

Wasn’t there a bit in the OG Dune lore where the person the Jihad was named after actually didn’t want to start a Jihad? (I think that was retconned into ‘they sneakily did try to become a martyr to start the war’ bit, which sort of messes with the themes of Dune that even lofty goals can have horrible consequences, see Paul).

It is funny that this is the best Yud, with an IQ of 191, can come up with.

Yeah that is true, but another thing this distinction also might not matter to any of his more extreme followers either.

One of those hunger strikers also went ‘I have no idea why Yud isnt going on hinger strike’. (Great way of not noticing your confusion).

Doubt they can resist the urge to wrap those communes into contracts and so theyvwill be organisations

Took 3d6 SAN damage.

That is pretty cool, less cool is that there is no option to read them without voiding my rights.

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Also dont think this is legally binding, acknowledging they are different doesnt mean much. But IANAL.

Blake “Evil Solver” Stacey

Lot of these people are really into science fiction, tech science fiction and tech workers and tech enthousiasts. For a lot of these people thinking you know better is the default, and if you remain in that bubble you do not get proven otherwise.

Sexists an racists have the same problem, which explains the overlap.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. (I’m doing a variant of this meme)

BREAKING: Police perform 5th anti GPU raid in as many days. Found another illegal weed farm instead. Is the tactic of checking for unusual power usage failing? Our digital AI of John McAfee expresses concern this might hurt bitcoin miners.

I hope somebody said: ‘If we let Eliezer write this, everybody dies’

I have not read it, but the 8 gpu max thing is funny. I’m halfway there already. Worse perhaps, I’m not sure there still is a Voodoo Graphics card in a box somewhere (don’t think those count as a gpu however).

And it is funny that microsoft will now be limited to 8 gpus. But your anarchist polycule commune with 10 people can have 80 of them.

Considering the reputation of the USA and how they keep to agreements, nobody (except the EU) is going to keep to those anyway. And the techbros who are supposed to be on the Rationalists side help create this situation.