Thiel-astroturfed New York artistic scene. Everyone involved has an Urbit.

is the anonymous crypto donor Ben Delo from BitMEX? He was quite loudly and publicly second after Buterin a while ago.

yeah. it’s important to remember that in general, charities are fucking incompetent and suing them for being useless MFs tends to do nothing useful.

Someone who really hates you can try to make trouble using the statements, but it’s mostly trying to get the IRS to pull your charitable status. But the IRS is also aware there are a lot of dumb assholes who try to make trouble. Depends if someone serious can make it stick.

The main issue is if the IRS thinks it’s a scam in charitable clothing and not a genuine charity. But I think that our friends are very sincere in their charitable purposes and generally incompetent, and the IRS is extremely used to that combination.

I’ve noted on Reddit sneerclub previously that this is not an outrageous sort of amount for a Bay Area nonprofit to pay a C-level or a high level specialist. We might look and go “he’s a high level specialist in dumb nonsense”, but it’s not a facially outrageous number. Those region 2 DVDs aren’t going to buy themselves, you know.

they were on bluesky in the early days, recruited by the rationalists and neoreactionaries at bsky corp

the queer shitposters drove them the fuck off

the TPOTters were most put out that nobody accepted “oh no i’m not a nazi it’s just my friend is” as an excuse

some liked pushing people around and being tastemakers (Watson, Myers)

not only is this the opposite of reality, your supporting link names neither

yes, it’s Urbit failing to reach its target

Part of the late 2010s blockchain-academic-industrial complex

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-angel-investors-on-holy-land-march-2023

here’s the author’s previous ramble mentioning urbit

reads like she was angling for Dimes Square funding and didn’t get it

while the antifa FP crowd long jettisoned all Yarvin’s works, it occurs to me that the fa FP crowd don’t seem to talk about urbit or Yarvin any more either

he’s already done “don’t worry about your <100 score, IQ tests are meant to show black people are dumb”

ah, but it was a very defective essay if you don’t bother reading it

You have fun playing in the sandpit, thinking about your magic box. I’m gonna smoke cigarettes and play slot machines for an hour.

thread winner

the existence of a brain doesn’t show you can simulate it in a computer. the universe is not necessarily feasible to simulate down to the atoms, as the essay points out. did you read the essay?

this is an extended “nuh-uh”

Philosophically, right, if you allow me infinite resources, right, to do a thing I don’t actually know how to define,

that was posted in 2012, and I am quite sure that a lot of rationalists latched onto rot13 as the mild encoding algorithm of choice because it was standard for spoiler concealment in HPMOR discussion.

compare me on Scientology for example

tho I slung Scn jargon well enough that I’ve had an ex member refuse to believe that I wasn’t also an ex member

not a load bearing belief, but one of the things Ziz was specifically pissed off about