Part of the thing is also that compared to Germany we have less of a feeling for hierarchies (not that they do not exist, see how parts of our language have sexism build in). Which leads to interesting moments good and bad. But yeah we are flat in various ways.
Any mention of my name is now often met by a claim that I keep a harem of young submissive female mathematicians who submit to me and solve math problems for me, and that I call them my “math pets”.
I see he did the whole ‘making an accusation sound more silly to undermine it’ thing here, nobody said things about a whole harem of mathematicians, who just solve math problems. Nice steelman. I expect nothing less of somebody who was the subject of seven broadway plays.
(Amazing he basically admits the story is true after that, but continues to debunk the strawman).
Developers of the 12-megawatt facility said it will bring jobs and investment to Nashville, but neighbors aren’t so sure.
The neighbors are right.
Doubt that is legal, but yeah good luck suing Thiel over an event like this and keeping a job. Stuff is so fucked. Remember when hackers were proud to leak this stuff, like how people worked together to go after scientology.
Cloudflare is about to get really familiar with North Koreans.
Blow the one who created Braid? (Because he has been known to be iffy for a while now (for example https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/7kp08e/jonathan_blow_the_witness_braid_thinks_women_are/ ).
only to later claim that actually you are Dutch and it is in your culture to be an asshole.
This is such bullshit, our idea is that we are direct. We don’t get that this comes off as being an asshole. If they use this as an excuse to be an asshole (which is a step worse than being an asshole by being direct), they are worse than a normal asshole. (Really hope it wasn’t somebody I know).
And sadly I don’t have any good help to offer. I don’t know either. And the manifesto not blaming wider society, and the profit seeking/capitalist elements is a bit silly.
Do like somebody left a nice trap there:
You write “you can buy it here” but there is no link.
However, you can do better: the whole thing is available for free online. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html on the author’s website is a good place to start; it has links to various versions of the book and also a little bit of explanatory material.
(Unrelated, hope Stross’s recovery is going well, sorry for being a bit parasocial relationshippy here).
I like singularity sky more as a sort of critical book about how a post scarcity singularity would be easy to mess up. Very funny that it inspired the US to give free phones to Afghans to try and combat the Taliban.
Is NP P or is NP not P, thats the question, by Scott Scottersons-Scottsson
Would me lying about doing impressions for YourNetworkIsHaunted’s cat be enough? I both dont know the cat and didnt actually do impressions? (Brb gotta update my dating profile).
I mean I even get that you would use some embellishment for entertainment value. But if the person who made the play writes you and corrects you, you should stop doing that, esp if you are doing the whole Rationalism. But yeah, that isn’t what the rich and powerful do, they make up shit and ignore corrections all the time. The power of being stubborn.
A while back somebody from themotte (when it still was on reddit) said about sneerclub vs themotte that the sneerclub wanted to do what is right, and they wanted to figure out what is true. And I often think about that when people in the Rationalist space do not really want to figure out what is true.
A jokingly Whorfian mind-lock, putting the jargon file in a sie like that and not converting it to a wiki. Second one, wanting to put everything in a wiki.
Not sure if smoothbrains and IQ levels are correlated, so perhaps 160IQ smoothies exist next to 100IQ smoothies. (Do agree the insult is perhaps not a thing we should be using (and this last sentence was also the only serious part of this post))
Yeah he was a prequel of whats to come re Gamers acting normally.
This article also reminded me of how when they are trying to promote AI agents they dont get further than shopping, a secretary, or help you cook with random ingredients. No real human connections
Yeah meant the seven suns series. Dune I need to get into the sequels first. (Think i might have read them decades ago). But yes the seven suns def had me persistent in reading out of a sort of spite and fools hope.
And after the horus heresy, im not sure I want another prequel, and rereading those is not an option.
And on a lol note, my parents got the newest Brown for themselves. The article about brown reminded me of the crash investigator book by Dan Simmons, shared a few of Browns writing flaws.
It was the guy angry about videogames. Just an ancient reference nothing special sadly. Just a random guy most people thought was wrong. Turns out GTA isnt a cop killing training simulator.
Of course the newest gta release is turning into a waiting for godot situation. (Apparently it was delayed again, not my game series, only liked the first two)
Sorry I meant that my hope was wrong, and too generous.
Yeah if you read the reviews the singularity is more a bit of a godot situation than something Yudi fears and has doubts over, which is a bit different than Yud who created the ‘we must make sure it is friendly’ institute earlier.
Bit like making a play about Jack Thompson but in the play he reviews video games.
That he keeps claiming it was about him, despite being told it wasn’t is just so odd.
But hey, mirrors how they talk about sneerclub as their personal nemesis (despite SC talking about all lot of them and now awful.systems being more general).
For the company hopefully, but it could also turn into ‘any mention of AI gets interpreted as a bad sign’ and you need to pivot before that affects the bottom line. (clearly the pendulum is towards it being a good sign atm).
Any of the big Rationalists get mentioned yet?