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carlitoscohones, 7 months ago to sneerclub in Cold viruses and bitcoin mining oh noes

Sometimes I believe 5 impossible things before breakfast, but they are always serious.

carlitoscohones, 8 months ago to sneerclub in Let's walk through the uncanny valley with SBF so we can collapse some wave functions together

I have nothing to add. Here’s my up arrow.

carlitoscohones, 9 months ago to sneerclub in Super casual conversation about Eugenics

Indeed, super casual. Disturbingly so.

“2 of the triplets can’t read at grade level; the plus 5 IQ option didn’t deliver enough utils in my Monte Carlo simulation.”

carlitoscohones, 9 months ago to sneerclub in If learning incorrect things is EY's only definition of trauma, his existence must be eternal torment.

I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.

Same here. I think that it also works as a defense of Twitter - reframing the trauma that you experienced by reading Nazi tweets as “learning the wrong thing” from them.

carlitoscohones, 9 months ago to sneerclub in a scrawny nerd in a basement writes

Dude.

carlitoscohones, 9 months ago to sneerclub in a scrawny nerd in a basement writes

When I see “pica” I think of a typeface, but from context, the author is using a different definition. Do men who want to fight find themselves craving the taste of dirt?

You cannot understand much of modern culture until you’ve recognized that the state’s blunt suppression of the male instinct for glory has caused widespread symptoms of pica that dominate our politics, media, and online interactions.

*pica (usually uncountable, plural picas) (pathology) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand. *

carlitoscohones, 10 months ago to sneerclub in LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame”

I am saving this to read later, but having eugenics and IQ in the very first sentence makes it look especially promising.

carlitoscohones, 10 months ago to sneerclub in you need way too much familiarity with the rationalist subculture to appreciate this one fully, but my goodness this moderation notice

So very many words.

carlitoscohones, 10 months ago to sneerclub in Yud goes full seed oil-ist

“carving reality at the joints” - does this mean anything?

Only finer-grained concepts like “linoleic acid” are useful for carving reality at the joints.

carlitoscohones, 10 months ago to sneerclub in The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable?

Word Count needs to be added to the crackpot index.