He doesn’t believe in Germ theory. He’s utterly deranged. The grift is alternative medicine, but I don’t know if he really understands that it’s a grift. His bosses surely do, but they just want to inflict as much punishment on institutions as possible.

Had people concern trolling about this guy repeatedly on Reddit. It’s like bro he was on the Human Biodiversity Institute mailing list and all but brags about race science at Harvard in his trump-fluffing NYT piece.

That’s basically the Rationalist story tbh. Read banks, it went right over their head, and now they see hostile Minds around every corner.

Imagine if it was trying to build a feature for a client who needs to look at a demo every time.

You can definitely learn how to code, I believe in you.

Under no circumstances allow your US Citizen self to be illegally detained by ICE I guess.

he’s got that hybrid vigor

What the actual fuck do these people believe???

If I had to summarize it, they believe in scifi handwaves and have taken them far beyond mere logical conclusions.

From the US department of not beating those allegations.

What’s the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven’t switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

OSI is gonna mandate that we call it open source now, didn’t ya hear?

Can’t people run it locally supposedly?

Awesome, I no longer have to link to leaked emails to convince people he’s a phrenologist, he just went and wrote a nice succinct article laying it out.

You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.

The point was SSCers reacting. Vance being an SSCer isn’t notable as he’s a Thiel creature. SSCers being confronted with the eyeshadowed mirror that is Vance is much more interesting because they spend a lot of time being nominally not exactly what Vance is.

The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.

You missed his most important job, reminding everyone about previous discussions of PG essays whenever someone reposts a PG essay.

Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.

Apple Envy

Launch all the nukes?