• mwenge@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    i’ve just realized - the endless prose is drug-fuelled. blog post part vii == i am doing drugs and cannot stop typing

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      4 months ago

      “endless drug-fueled prose about drugs” is an entire, unfortunate subgenre of Rationalist authorship. it takes them a surprisingly long time (usually a couple years or so) to spiral out and stop posting, but the posts usually get even less coherent as they approach burnout