The start with the weird bit against people with mh issues had me on edge already, and when he let all the ‘these things are for women/my ex’ stuff slide, I was not thinking good things of the author.

Note how nobody he talks to seems to be a woman, despite all the techbros talking about women quite often.

(The authors apparent metoo history comes as no shock (I didnt look into that so dont quote me on that)).

Also a little bit of context for the people who know nothing about all this, the O9A is one of those very scary groups, liked to various murders and stuff like that.

Iirc some anti-extremism people used to not mention them a lot as they didnt want them to get more attention by platforming them a little bit and they were scared of drawing their attention personally.

with the right bootstrap instructions and a bit of tools.

Is doing a lot of work

I assume a lot of people are using this moment to do the ‘I never liked him’ hate.

I disagree with Tante on the second article btw. Dont think people drop others on a dime, Inthink it is a slower process where someone you look up to does more and more small things you dislike (or you reread and start to realize you perhaps had a few too rose colored glasses on) and then your opinion turns. (With some exceptions of course, lot of people have a few things they consider red lines, like a lot of leftwingers not being fan of sex crimes, or people on the right not being a fan of treating poc like equals).

E: i do have a hit skeet on bsky saying ‘Guess even Doctorow must eventually enshittify’ hope this didn’t trigger this blog post. (I meant it both as he got worse, but also im using enshittify intentionally wrong cause Cory said a very weird thing about how anti AI was neoliberal purity culture, which I also think is misusing terms).

Yeah not even halfway in and it is just madness. Also not unlikely the Roy guy just made things up.

Guess the author didn’t think of asking about the inconsistencies in the mans story cause they both bonded over disliking unhoused people. (The horrible unhoused people who mumble incoherently vs the chad founder who shouts ‘will you be a cofounder with me?’ at people).

But nope just post the blackpillers words uncritically. Do not mention that this bold truthteller who doesnt like to be told what to do or he gets enraged spend a year at home to save his parents business (and admits to that damaging their business).

Alexander is one of the leading proponents of rationalism

Is he? Or is he just calling himself that. Claiming to be a Rationalist is easier than actually doing it of course.

For rationalists, the divide between truth and falsehood is very important;

Only for the outgroup. (Saying this in relation to Scott ‘Secret NRx’/‘I didnt read the book I reviewed’ is something).

"Racing cum is definitely interesting.” I found Eric very hard not to like.

Might want to reflect on that a bit. And why this is more a pr piece than journalism. (Did he even check all these people got kicked out of their highschools?)

Re donald boat.

Why didn’t people just block him? Why doesnt the author talk about this?

I told Donald the theory I’d been nursing

This explains, the author wants to be them.

Nope sorry, just a bad attempt at a joke. Made sense in my head the first time, now less ;).

Tante.cc writes about Cory using an ‘Drunk Uncle’ style argument to defend his LLM usage (and go after the left using strawmans).

(To counter one of Cory’s arguments, If disliking LLMs was just about the people who run it, people against it would have have stayed in sneerclub).

I was trying to make a joke (and failing) about how people misuse terms. Sorry about it not landing. Should have thought about it better.

Rip the stately home.

Time to say ‘Sneerclub was correct’ a lot, so we can frontload the ‘factcheckers’.

the Gen-Z men shut out by elite institutions often join their grandfathers and turn toward MAGA, or worse, into Groypers.

Iirc that is not as often true as people claim it is. But yeah, not gonna click unherd to see if they have a source. Because blergh unherd.

Think you did, I only followed it up with a google and finding that site.

Not beating the ‘this is just Christianity with the labels removed’ allegations.

We are in the singularity this is so hard to explain to people.

Describes a normal thing, a think also talked about for several decades in science fiction now.

Amazing the singularity term has now been downgraded to “ai stuff that is hard to explain to laymen”.

According to a site : https://apocaloptimist.net/the-apocaloptimist/

“An Apocaloptimist sees the trouble, but is optimistic we can do anything–including fixing all the world’s problems”

So if jesus wins the war during the second coming all problems are fixed.

(The thing is also nuts “we are the people actually working on fixing things [by hoping AGI will fix it all for us]”, my brother in Eschatology you are running a podcast sorry the guy is unrelated to the agi people theyvare just using his term).

E: does seem the site itself isnt about AI so they just stole this guys term. Nope they just took this clean energy guys term, sorry about sneering at him he seems to actually want to introduce clean energy and works hard (that seems to be a lot of conventions and blogging however, so buying ourself out of the capitalist problems) for it, as far as I can tell.

Ow god it is pop culture references all the way down. Tvthropes is skynet! You gotta tell them!

Person who lied on his resume about having a cs degree “I need to reduce my cognitive debt”

Im teleporting in real time!

Somebody on bsky talking about various Ben Goertzel Epstein file emails.

AI bros do new experiments in making themselves even stupider. Going from ‘explain what you did but dumb it down for me and my degraded attention span’ into ‘just make a simplified cartoon out of it’.

Proud of not understanding what is going on. None of these people could hack the Gibson.