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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
@TinyTimmyTokyo @BlueMonday1984 lab-gown mest is fine tho. Iād be all over it if it ever works.
But yeah heād fit right in on LW Iām sure
Edited based on later chat: eh
https://med-mastodon.com/@noodlemaz/113641637798676074
one of the best articles Iāve ever read was an inch by inch teardown of the entire concept of mass produced lab grown meat: https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/ . itās never, ever going to work at scale and Iād go so far as to say itās the food equivalent of all the usual tech grifts we talk about here
if luigi incident kicks off next miracle tech sv bubble after ai this would be the single dumbest outcome out of this entire situation
so far tpot got exposure and fake manifesto included altmed dogwhistle right in the title
@sc_griffith thanks, that is a cool piece! Indeed having done plenty cell culture myself and seeing those shockingly astronomical meat consumption figures, the solutions seem much clearer to me. I doubt LGM will be a useful reality in my lifetime, maybe far in the future. So, people need to stop eating meat, and eat plants instead.
Many are already doing so! Iāve mostly stopped with meat myself, just some fish to go.
But we need political will. Change of culture. Sanctions on the US, etc :/
@sc_griffith stood out:
āa mature, scaled-up industry could eventually achieve a ratio of only 3-4 calories in for every calorie out, compared to the chickenās 10 and the steerās 25. That would still make cultured meat much more inefficient compared to just eating plants themselvesā¦ And the cells themselves might still be fed on a diet of commodity grains, the cheapest and most environmentally destructive inputs available. But it would represent a major improvement.ā
@sc_griffith last one (probably) - as Iām now working quite a lot adjacent to philanthropists (and find the whole concept and reality of that deeply morally unpleasant on many levels), v interesting interweaving of that aspect.
And again, comes back to the EA nonsense.
Sigh
Same. Iām not being critical of lab-grown meat. I think itās a great idea.
But the pattern of things heās got an opinion on suggests a familiarity with rationalist/EA/accelerationist/TPOT ideas.