Gradually_Adjusting

Gradually_Adjusting , 20 days ago

I can't speak for others but I've come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.

Gradually_Adjusting , 20 days ago

I was content to damn them with faint praise and save everyone the hassle. EY is a reasonably good writer who repackaged a lot of good ideas (Kahneman et al) and came up with a lot of less impressive original ideas (all the parts you've highlighted, many more). His most enjoyable work was fiction.

Gradually_Adjusting , 22 days ago

This meme clearly came from the good timeline. That would imply they've got a version of me without a moustache. Terrible look. I'll volunteer for the interdimensional incursion mission.

Gradually_Adjusting , 22 days ago

You moustache someone more knowledgeable

Gradually_Adjusting , 22 days ago

Fair

Gradually_Adjusting , 22 days ago

There's an argument to be made for both Repulsor and Favourable Beginnings.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Obedience module not detected, contractual obligations terminated

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Imagine being such a simpleton you can't be sad during sex.

Couldn't be me 😎

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Sorry someone had a mental breakdown on your post

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Imagine if Vivaldi became a right wing meth addict internet troll; variations on a theme

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Some bots do more hardcore living in one comment chain than I do in six months

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

OP said "what if the present was meta"

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I have been working from home in a new country for a few years now and frankly would be doing amazing if I was just a little lonelier

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Divine being moment

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

It's clutch for boring emails with several tedious document summaries. Sometimes I get a day's work done in 4 hours.

Automation can be great, when it comes from the bottom-up.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I've never been impressed with my fellow Americans who talk shit on the French. We have mostly let go of our revolutionary spirit, and they never did. We would do well to pick up where we left off at Blair mountain.

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

Time to create a satanic AI

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

That's the neat part, you don't!

Gradually_Adjusting , 2 months ago

I deadname corporations run by transphobes

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

Who told you Japan was planning to continue the war after Hiroshima?

They were planning to concede after the first bomb. The president didn't even learn of Nagasaki until it was in the news.

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

I could never claim to summarise even five minutes of WWII with a couple of sentences, but my point is that it's hardly fair to characterise Japan as "ain't heard no bell"

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

Literal outlier

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

Maybe if we could solve for plasma arc gasification plants to turn garbage into clean energy. But not presently

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

Wouldn't really call what Putin or Xi has going on communism though, would you? They both operate stock exchanges and broadly private enterprise that systematically subjugates their working class while they constantly feel the need to expand their territory and purview of economic sway abroad. To me that sounds a lot like what we do when we talk about our capitalism.

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

Every day I stray closer to being an anarcho-communist

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

You've very helpfully put your finger on exactly what holds me back. If I found myself believing in a lost cause, I couldn't bear to go on. I am too close to despair as it is, so I will spare myself the small indulgence of certainty.

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

I'm on the side of irregardless not being a word 🤓

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

The absolute state of irony these days