Awesome, informative post!

Command & Conquer, but Kane is a woman and also correct.

Old: epistemic humility

Bold: epistemic humiliation

TESCREAL is structurally an evangelical a-theist religion descended from the 19th century Russian Orthodox christianity of Nikolai Fyodorovitch Fyodorov and in my new book I will—

Hannu Rajaniemi beat us all to the punch all the way back in 2010, didn’t he? The Sobornost are exactly who the Rationalists want to be when they grow up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief

There’s something about how these weird ideologies grow and how people get trapped in them that reminds me of oncogenesis.

When a cancer forms, cell lines experience a typical progression where a lineage accumulates mutations which aren’t that bad individually, but combine in the aggregate to cause havoc. The cells close themselves off from outside communication and lose all capacity for repairing genomic damage or heeding signals to slow out-of-control growth. Environmental factors like pollution and ionizing radiation can predictably push otherwise benign cells in that direction; the same cancer can develop in thousands or millions of people independently via convergent shit-evolution.

It rhymes, doesn’t it?

The Dominic Cummings we have at home

How would you first approach explaining this shit past “it can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong”?

This is the question of the moment, isn’t it?

I have no answers, but i can say thanks for being a light in the dumbness.

Yakshaven

Oof, thanks!

this whole “superbabies will save us from AI” presupposes that the superbabies are immune to the pull of LW ideas.

Well, if they fall for less wrong, then we know they’re not all that smart

Fascism is all about vibes with no underlying structure. AI slop satisfies that specification perfectly.

Footnote 1: As a consequence of this approach to thinking and life, rationalists are, as a rule, unbelievably prolix, wall-eyed, and tedious writers, and also polyamorous.

“Wall-eyed” hit me as odd, so I go to look it up: https://www.wordnik.com/words/walleyed

The first entry:

adjective Often Offensive Affected with exotropia.

Well-played, Max!

A computer guy who craves public approval for his 4 white Monster a day habit?

LGB-Trillionaires?

All I can figure is that they want to build a hydraulic empire but are too lazy to work through the practical difficulties of plumbing.

When you encounter a situation where Abort, Retry, and Fail are all solid options.

Big Yud is the all-time champion of shooting his mouth off from the hip.

BTW, there is evidence emerging all of this is a downstream consequence of chronic pain from a back injury. As a lifting-things enthusiast who mildly tweaked their back once, whew, I can see this being a thing.

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

I’d heard of the Basque space program, but the Catalonian moon landing is news to me.

Seems a bit like Sovereign Citizen stuff, but for physics. The author is using these symbols as occult instruments in the same way as SovCits use legal terms.

Ya know, we used to joke about Ted Cruz being an alien and recording the shape of people’s skulls, as if that were unusual.