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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

this is a nice writeup of the story of Ziz

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago

extremely normal thing and definitely not cult shit (ziz):

Something I don’t think I ended up writing, was a random conversation on what it meant to be good and a Sith. In which I said, something like, well, I’m doing whatever I want, no matter what, which in my case is good things.

also seems weird that vassar went from failed let-me-google-scholar-that-for-you fake medical startup to a niche rat cult leader. can't any single one of these people get a normal job?

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

How are you going to get them back to ~~the farm~~ a retail job once ~~they've seen Paris~~ tasted cult power?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

pol pot was in paris and tasted cult power and all it took to get him back to farm and out of power was Vietnamese invasion. personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

But aren't they used to dealing with VC?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

imagine marc andreesseen on a beat up bike with equally beat up akm strolling through californian forests (currently on fire) trying to deliver rice and beans to starving venture-capitslist guerillas

At fair market value, considering the massive reduction in supply.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

libertarian police department meets ho chi minh trail

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Rice and beans, not eggs.

[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

spat out my fucking drink on this one

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

it took me until today to grok the VC double entendre

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

(life has hella been burning mental bandwidth)

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm starting to think maybe it was a mistake to let nerd media take over the world.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

I'm so used to bad rat science being expressed in obscurantist math and quantum physics jargon that the kindergarten neuro woo like "each half-a-brain has a 1 in 20 chance of being ontologically Good" and "nonbinary people have one half of their brain be transgender" throws me off.

Where are the Planck units and the h-bars, category theory, maybe something about Turing machines or Gödel? Can't you at least throw in a square root or something? Is this all it takes to stroke the a modern STEM dweeb's ego? I guess all the talk about "debugging" and "jailbreaking" compensates for the infantile aesthetics of the crankery.

[-] saucerwizard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

I'm glad the non sanitized details are making it out.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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!

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

Merriam-Webster says "marked by a wild irrational staring of the eyes"

Which sounds a bit more accurate than a mere physical quirk.

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