I definitely don’t have the spoons to read this most recent of his emanations (yes, I am picking that word), but from just the start of it alone… god

the orange man isn’t even in the seat yet and all these motherfuckers are loudly shouting who they are

yt short

may shorts forever die writhing (along with the people that made it happen)

such a fucking abysmal format, coming along only because twitter periscope facebook-lying-to-everyone quibi “tiktok” popularity made every bigtech shitlord feel product fomo and decide they had to do it ritenao just in case they miss the next big thing, despite afterward still sitting on the exact same extractivist bullshit as their source of money as before

“we set up a pocket universe for our toy robot to run in, looped it a few billions times, and you wouldn’t believe what ways it found to fuck with the rules! we’re ever so shocked! :o” is a going staple in ML agent research for years now, these people are a parody upon themselves

remember that “agents in a physics sim” shit a few years ago (both early goog and openai, I think)? that strain of nonsense

I actually had to doublecheck context on this but rofldamn this is savage

brava

I swear all those fuckers are like “I was 4 rooms over but just heard the word ‘paprika’ being screamed from someone over this way. time for you to hear all about my bowel issues, in detail! you wouldn’t believe what happens if I smell onions”, but at a conference as a lightning talk to the main hall

gap’s closer now

when I asked him if jewish people in WWII concentration camps were just choosing to be unhappy he was like yes

oof.

that whole strain of “it’s only in your mind” motherfuckers who just outright disregard varieties of concrete evidence… whether from biochemically-etc originated body- and being-related problems all the way through things like the example you gave… I’ve had to deal with a couple of them myself (my can of brainworms include some choice seasonal unfun things) and good god do I often want to boop them on the nose

I was wondering why the name Kevin Roose sounded familiar and ah, right

okay a lot of that is good and all, but here’s the flipside: a lot of these fuckwits outright prey on naïve curiousity. it is one of their biggest feeders for taking in people who don’t yet know any better

and that’s kinda the point. broadly I agree with you, but curiousity is a dangerous things

(also the reason I asked was the framing of one of your statements, so: Rationalism, big-R specifically. congratulations on learning about some of the worst people around)

I… have to ask: are you actually aware of what the hell the context is of the things that you’re commenting about?

I’m not suggesting which ideas are right and wrong, or which he would accept or reject

you: thinks one is doing this with care and finesse

nobody:

everyone else: 🤨

unhandsome jack

same thing with felon, who has the airbrushed-to-fuck Rogue Boyish Charm press photo that usually goes around, and then Weirdo Creep Making Jumping Xs freak as the reality

every so often, gear techs involved with filming interviews can do silently heroic things

I don’t know if this is a case of that, but given the skin shine from reflections, whoever set this up wasn’t trying overly hard to make him look good. good on 'em

holy fuck this is incredible

reminds me: earlier today I saw a toot reflecting on “it’s not radical to have $x. the american right have just dragged it so far away that gov doing it’s job is now radical”. topical

that is extremely similar to my motivation as well, ^5

their problem with punching nazis is how many of their friends would take objection to suddenly being punched mid-conversation

Feeling decidedly strange to keep having the internet weirdos one’s been keeping a watch on keep coming up in news like this…

also lol @ the pure Ronald Reagan energy of going “yep obviously drugs just make you murderously insane”

always think of this (which is just multiple kinds of amazing in the current day; that it keeps getting used as a sample in dance tracks is just even better)

and then posting walls of text about them not merely burying the lede but quite fully conspiring to eliminate the evidence and all witnesses in the same go, as a starting condition