Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride Month, peeps)
āI personally worry that the EA community has over-learned the lessons of FTXā
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/95NgkvZKJx8tJbtn5/lighthaven-east-a-feasibility-study
āEA and Rationalist policy organizations are scaling in DCā
Just a reminder that the rationalists already own two event spaces in the Bay Area and the Effective Altruists briefly owned one in England and one in the Czech Republic as well as an institute at Oxford University. Both of their existing spaces are losing money and had to beg for it last winter.
āThis project needs a champion, but itās a thing someone can simply choose to doā sounds very different when it means āyou can actually try slacklining with the cool strangers in the parkā and when it means āsomeone could lend us another $20 million for 20 years on easy terms.ā And seeing the lesson of FTX as ādonāt look weirdā not āeffective altruists are fraudsters and hypocritesā is a take.
Thatās OK, the next set of bankruptcy lawyers will again conduct clawbacks
Makes you wonder how much of rationalism is just contrarianism.
From the comments:
āLove your idea, but could we make it more like a compound?ā