"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel

also the mods being bad makes people start actually using the decentralization features, which is the entire point of this site. i kinda wonder if they're intentionally doing bad moderation to force this lol

I'm going to spend a lot of time hammering this between now and the 2028 primary, but everyone should vote for the candidate they like the most and not play 11-dimensional electability chess

incorrect: “parents rights activist” correct: “child abuse advocate”

sincerely, the next Democratic administration needs to oppress conservatives at least as much as they acted like they were oppressed by Biden

since he apparently namesearches: eigenrobot, every single idea you have is just as stupid as this one and we would all be smarter and better off if you just fucking logged off

i tried to tell him this once by poking fun at him with like a tenth the intensity he gave to others. in response, he called me a "garden variety social failure"

"even improved levels of democracy" sounds amazing, i would like to live in that country in a decade

I don’t think it was irresponsible to speculate, I just think it’s now very solidly established what was going on People need to get a better sense of the kind of conspiracies they can plausibly expect. for a number of reasons this case isn’t one of those.

i have remarked to some friends that his texts remind me of my obsessive ex, who took a very overdramatic stance on romance both during and after our relationship. i have no trouble believing an otherwise normal-seeming 22-year-old in a masculine gender role wrote those texts

you don’t need to run candidates who have bad culture war positions. you maybe do need to run candidates who code as moderate independent of their culture war positions.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

it's almost like rationalists like Kelsey Piper generally like rationalists and think AI safety is important far from me to defend the centrist turn of the rats (i have a blog post i'm working on about that), but i think the argument people are actually right about this one

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

timeline cleanse

it is not sustainable for this nation to alternate between rising fascism and boring lib politics every 4-8 years even if it doesn't happen now, eventually that switch is gonna get stuck in the "fascist" position tit for tat can only form a stable equilibrium when the "tat" is guaranteed

I think there's some value in trying to stay off whatever lists the Trump Administration is going to use for whatever but the NIH/NSF experience suggests that the lists they're going to use are vastly stupider than you are capable of anticipating

Something that liberals could indeed learn from Charlie Kirk is that forcefully advocating for ideas that are not momentarily popular or politically ascendant is, in fact, an essential part of how that changes.

do u ever think about how basically every animal with a central nervous system wants to experience this and basically only primates can actually do it

Gd. I just genuinely feel so utterly bad for her.

just extremely interesting that Charlie Kirk was killed by someone who had regrounded his upbringing in honor culture in something else entirely

I think it’s bad that there are people out there who believe you’re gonna get black bagged for signing up for an Indivisible protest with three million other people. That feels like people are afraid of the regime in a way that both overestimates its power and grants it more power.

jfc that's embarrassing

i’m extremely tired of people whingeing. or perhaps wishcasting. about how. liberals secretly hate trans people. or resent us. this has been broadly untrue for a decade+ this is not to say liberals are wholly good on trans shit. but pity and ignorance are. very different from. resentment and hate

one thing that smith doesn't mention in his post is that while bluesky user growth has (presently) plateaued, a bunch of scientists have switched over i'd much rather have quality over quantity bsky.app/profile/jayz...

"cancel culture was a seemingly invincible weapon for progressives" bro the time period you're talking about literally had gamergate shut the fuck up

joyless, but not wrong

i can very easily say “we should build stuff” and “i do not trust peter thiel” in the same breath. it isn’t hard. i don’t need to compromise my values to match his preferences.

"why people are mad about Abundance" in meme form to save me time in the future

This is the direct fruit of the particular online/SF strain of “well you shouldnt condemn people based on who they associate with”

people who are both here and twitter and who agree with my general points, what do you think of my arguing over there?

To sum up what I’ve been trying to say: - there’s a lot of hype around language models - you can actually download them and look at how they work - if you do this you can actually observe what they are doing without taking anyone’s word for it, and it’s not what the boosters OR haters claim

important to read, and i would ask all my rationalist followers to read it

the worst part of the year is the one where i will be one-shot by pollen if i leave the window open for longer than thirty fucking minutes

Look, if I was trying to consolidate power as an aspiring authoritarian I would not try to not create a second bonus army, but I guess this is how Trump is built different

a surprising but wonderful thing about moving closer to anarchism has been a new special interest in what preindustrial life was like. not for primitivist reasons - i'm super tech-positive - but because a lot of hierarchical realist arguments rely on an imagined "state of nature"

"the marketplace of ideas" includes ideas like "you should assume this guy is lying or wrong because he is usually lying or wrong"

It's wild that essentially you can boil this whole speech down to "it's unreasonable to be even slightly uncivil to unrepentant racist eugenicists" and not a single word of that summary is exaggeration

pulling the full text over so that it can be admired in all its glory by those who are accountless cremieux and hanania were both originally scott stans, coincidentally

one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil

This is a good example of how people pick their own interpretation of polling questions because conservatives obviously happily approve of cutting off *children* (e.g., for being queer) but they hate the idea children can cut them off in return (e.g. for being bigots).

this is correct, but also, there are far-right occultic groups that have *explicitly* made this into a formal thing

was briefly hopeful that the "meta ethics" tag on trending was going to be about moral realism discourse, but alas the company is just being evil again

i find wailing about the irrecoverability of anything resembling a society just absolutely contemptible. this all came from nothing and can be returned from it.

It is genuinely remarkable how many of the same people who spent years correctly saying that Twitter is not real life then decided it was actually a flawless microcosm of society once it began to institutionally parrot crude right-wing agitprop

> go into chicago > see the thirty soldiers guarding the bean or whatever > move on with my life

from my impression of this site, it seems i missed the UBI discourse, but someone has a firsthand account of one of the studies over on tumblr www.tumblr.com/tanadrin/792...

anyway the discourse around these hypotheticals is 🥱 given that to whatever extent it actually existed the rule of law in america has been compromised by trump you may not like anarchist conclusions, but like it or not you're going to have to learn from us about how to overcome these problems

universal turing machines are GLOBALIST and TRANSGENDER – ANY MACHINE CAN SIMULATE ANY OTHER POSSIBLE MACHINE. AMERICAN needs AMERICAN finite state machines that can only run AMERICAN programs