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Scott Alexander (Siskind) of SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
Scott Alexander (Siskind) of SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen
welcome to the abyss! here’s your hazmat suit with a leak! it sucks here!
(it’s a very long boring rambling essay where a horrible person talks about his fellow horrible people, for the bit about meth just ctrl-F for "meth " and marvel at what fucking galaxy brainlets the rationalists are)
“wait, is it ALL infohazard?”
“oh come on, that TOO?”
get writing you know you have to
look, the alternative is rewriting your air conditioner’s OS again
look pal, we have it right there in the sidebar
I guess the actual concept might be so insane that there’s no way to write an article about it that makes sense and doesn’t use expletives
this is basically the problem. there was an article there already but it was based entirely on urbit’s descriptions of itself, which were all cultist gibberish. I went searching and found literally every Wikipedia-quality source I could. Most of these were about the people, not the tech.
lol i basically wrote that article
i’m sorry, i was describing something that is garbage
the short description is “lisp machines but networked, for nazis, and they don’t fucking work”
i’ve always pronounced it ER-bit
i think but cannot verify that Kinode is more of the same sort of guy (FP techfash)
and Hochstein is 100% on board
the proximate example is Kinode - who are 100% believers in what Urbit and Yarvin want - who had to move off Urbit to a more, ah, functional functional programming stack because Urbit didn’t work
sadly that was a fork that went nowhere
also: remember that urbit literally doesn’t work. the funding issues are cos they lost a huge chunk of the urbit ecosystem, who were techfash neoreactionaries like themselves and 100% on board with what urbit wanted - but they still needed a base system that like worked at all, so they moved to conventional Lisps instead
@self and i both keep saying we’ll write that one up but never do, but it was a hoot
Hochstein is 100% an urbit in bio guy
Metal and industrial both have a Nazi problem and you have to get unfortunately good at sign spotting.
you can do that in the uk too (because nobody can be bothered otherwise and the volume is so low)
yeah, he was in the Extropians
welcome to sneerclub! here’s your accordion
that’s a broadly applicable burn, but is also clearly about an individual he hates