I recall telling someone that the ‘I love your’ email he got wasnt somebody he knew, and was actually the virus going round. He didnt believe me.

Glad we can recreate my suffering on industrial scale.

Dont worry, other Scott (no the other other one), is saying it will not be a problem.

Or, it is etsy witches.

Could also be daughter from munchausen tbh. Or she is making stuff up as people mocker her for the spiritual attack thing she claimed earlier (which also affected her kid).

Damn, can’t unsee. Indeed.

He def is the type to lock his door when a poc/poor person walks up to his car.

Amazing how he looks like an annoying Seinfeld extra in that picture.

Why spend so much time worrying about this I wonder, does he think that if he stops the acausalrobotgod it doesnt count if he did it for ego reasons?

Also this sentence is ver funny:

No offense, Ben, but this is very simple stuff - in fact, it’s right there in the Zen definition of altruism I quoted. This is a very straightforward trap by comparison with any of the political-emotion mindtwisters, much less the subtle emergent phenomena that show up in a pleasure-pain architecture.

Emp mine, very simple stuff, creates a very weird sentence after that.

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