[-] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 minutes ago

Maxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she's not in power any more but she can help jam this up

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 10 hours ago

when you say "made it", i think FUCKING ROOSE

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 10 hours ago

that's CFAR cult jargon right?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 10 hours ago

apparently a complete archive of scott siskind's old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 18 hours ago

the user who cannot read has been guided to go not read elsewhere

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago

it's all fallout from the tariffs yeah

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago

still holds - it's still a bunch that needs a label and that's the label

even as TREACLES was right there

(i asked emile, they said it was TESCREAL is very searchable. i mean fine)

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I finished and realised Yudkowsky was the good guy in my story here. Because the other guy is fuckin' Sam.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

yeah, Nvidia is gonna be fine. They make a useful thing that people want and is the best in its field. I've spoken to Nvidia people, they know damn well this is a bubble and they're making hay while the sun shines, but also NVDA has always been volatile as hell and they tend to assume Mr. Market is just on crack again.

The AI bubble takes out tech and thus the S&P 500. US stocks are fucked. Buuuut, I expect to see in about six hours that they're fucked already. Edit: it's coming up 08:00 UTC. Asia and Europe markets open, down about 10%. Yyyyeeeahhhh boyeeeeeeeeee

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the late 2000s, rationalists were squarely in the middle of transhumanism. They were into the Singularity, but also the cryonics and a whole pile of stuff they got from the Extropians. It was very much the thing.

These days they're most interested in Effective Altruism (loudly -the label at least) and race science (used to be quiet, now a bit louder). I hardly ever hear them even mention transhumanism as it was back then.

Did rationalists abandon transhumanism?

Is it just me? What happened?

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As spotted by @mountainriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXc9-oD_iFo - video

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I did two Intelligence Squared debates in the UK. The best bit was I got paid. The second best was the people running it were actually very nice and quite competent. Recommend to all.

As for content, the first one featured the guy behind Liberland, so lol

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Curtis Yarvin being into lizards is the most endearing thing I've ever heard about him

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Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

The problem is that it's all deep in the weeds. Every part of it is "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

With bitcoin, I have, over the years, simplified it to being a story of crooks and con men. The correct answer to "what is a blockchain and how does it work" is "it's a way to move money around out of the sight of regulators" and maybe "so it's for crooks and con men, and a small number of sincere libertarians" and don't even talk about cryptography or technology.

I dunno what the one sentence explanation is of this shit.

"The purpose of LessWrong rationality is for Yudkowsky to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of the AI God" is completely true, is the purpose of the whole thing, and is also WTF.

Maybe that and "so he started what turned into a cult and a series of cults"? At this point I'm piling up the absurdities again.

The Behind The Bastards approach to all these guys has been "wow these guys are all so wacky haha and also they're evil."

How would you first approach explaining this shit past "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"?

[also posted in sneer classic]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DZZuCi95o - video

my delivery was near perfect on this video, i'm very pleased

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

yeah i'm sure Matt Levine, qntm and Wildbow are gonna be champing at the bit to attend wordy racist fest

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