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https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/
A slice of life article about the futility of "highly agentic" people, their sperm races, and Donald Boat. Scott A makes a cameo where he dispenses crackers.
Edit: reddit sneerclub found that the author has a #metoo history, alas
Absolutely demented piece.
Yeah not even halfway in and it is just madness. Also not unlikely the Roy guy just made things up.
Guess the author didn't think of asking about the inconsistencies in the mans story cause they both bonded over disliking unhoused people. (The horrible unhoused people who mumble incoherently vs the chad founder who shouts 'will you be a cofounder with me?' at people).
But nope just post the blackpillers words uncritically. Do not mention that this bold truthteller who doesnt like to be told what to do or he gets enraged spend a year at home to save his parents business (and admits to that damaging their business).
Is he? Or is he just calling himself that. Claiming to be a Rationalist is easier than actually doing it of course.
Only for the outgroup. (Saying this in relation to Scott 'Secret NRx'/'I didnt read the book I reviewed' is something).
Might want to reflect on that a bit. And why this is more a pr piece than journalism. (Did he even check all these people got kicked out of their highschools?)
Re donald boat.
Why didn't people just block him? Why doesnt the author talk about this?
This explains, the author wants to be them.
Or just, y'know, Alex Karp
At first I read the article like the author was trying to display how ridiculous these people are by just repeating what they say. I guess this is like some people reading Ayn Rand works under the impression that they're satire.
The start with the weird bit against people with mh issues had me on edge already, and when he let all the 'these things are for women/my ex' stuff slide, I was not thinking good things of the author.
Note how nobody he talks to seems to be a woman, despite all the techbros talking about women quite often.
(The authors apparent metoo history comes as no shock (I didnt look into that so dont quote me on that)).
The way these people can just hang their asses out and lie continuously is something humanity is going to have to fuckin handle at some point.
It drives me up the fucking wall.
For all the talk about these people being "highly agentic", it is deeply ironic how all the shit they do has no meaning and purpose. I hear all this sound and fury about making millions off of ChatGPT wrappers, meeting senators in high school bathrooms, and sperm races (?), and I wonder what the point is. Silicon Valley hagiographies used to at least have a veneer that all of this was meaningful. Are we supposed to emulate anyone just because they happen to temporarily have a few million dollars?
Even though the material conditions of working in science are not good, I'd still rather do science than whatever the hell they're doing. I would be sick at the prospect of being a "highly agentic" person in a "new and possibly permanent overclass", where my only sense of direction is a vague voice in my head telling me that I should be optimizing my life in various random ways, and my only motivation is the belief that I have to win harder and score more points on the leaderboard. (In any case, I believe this "overclass" is a lot more fragile than the author seems to think.)
Incredibly fragile, which is why they’re all turning fascist.
I can't quite put my finger on why, but "recreationally jacking off onto microscope slides" does not suggest "permanent overclass" to me
I would also not put my finger on those microscope slides
I need a shower.
Somehow I had missed the boat on Donald Boat and now I have so many questions. Absolutely wild read.