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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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new class of kook just dropped
no red flags there
edit to add: Emphasis in original
fuck I hate when my own brain dupes me into getting on the internet
1990s dialup: barely only once
existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians
do these kooks follow single inheritance or multiple inheritance rules? I’m a bit more worried about the latter
lol, multiple
how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I haven't gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)
I was struck by the outright "hey we've got cult camp" kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they've done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as "people are cyborgs now"
although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I'm wondering if that's a thing that I missed in others of this before
Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.
so there's a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches
it's above-baseline among the tpots (at least relative to other areas I've observed it)
Compared to the hacker baseline that is odd indeed.