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this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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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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A Bluesky post by Jamelle Bouie prompted me to reflect on how I resent that my knowledge of toxic nerd deep lore is now socially relevant.
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Breaking Bad meme. Jesse: They always say "Read the Sequences", right?Walter White:
Jesse: But the Sequences are all cult shit, like everything Yud says about quantum mechanics
Jesse: It's all "The scientists are insufficiently Rational(TM) to see the truth, don't trust the scientists, trust me instead"
Walter White: Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
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Drunk woman yelling into man's ear (meme image). Captioned as though she is speaking:Their foundational text is a Harry Potter fanfic that supposedly teaches science
but it gets 9th-grade biology wrong by fucking up Punnett squares
That 'uses an iq chart from a tabloid mag' thread reminded me how bad the Lw Rationalists are at Lw Rationality. It is supposed to help you be less biassed, but nope first google hit from a bad source and almost zero community pushback, because it confirms their bias about IQ, and the relative value of fields.
Overcoming Bias (by renaming "bias" into "priors")
I felt this one