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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.)
[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty
When the very first thing you say about a character is that they āhave money in cryptoā, you may already be doing it wrong
Eurgh. Iām now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.
The FDA thing gave me whiplash what the fuck, what did I miss
2017 article on this topic https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/31/14364090/peter-thiel-fda-trump-silicon-valley-oneill-gulfo-srinivasan-gottlieb
evil regulators prevent sv megaminds from unrestricted access to adderall probably
idk what specifically, there has been a thing with anti-cavity bacteria that didnāt work or maybe thatās about some transhumanist bs
I remember from my misspent youth reading Scottās ramblings a fair bit of antipathy towards FDA regulations in particular. What I can only attribute to ignorance of history makes them fall prey to the standard libertarian talking points about slowing down drugs that could improve peopleās lives, never mind the fact that in the absence of those regulations everybody who could hypothetically benefit from psychedelic nootropics or whatever would have been too busy dealing with phocomelia to care.
they think they can reason from first principles out of this problem and obviously all these pitfalls wonāt happen to them, theyāre too smart for this. they arenāt like these filthy obstructionists of progress that actually know what theyāre doing, you see
Even if that was true, they have to understand that other people exist and may take advantage of this, right? Like, even if you believe you and your friends are paragons of moral and intellectual virtue, the same law applies to villains and dumbasses.
i donāt think that they think that everyone else has as much agency as they do (and itās kinda true, but not because of npc world, but because theyāre rich fucks with too much time to waste)
also, if they had a way theyād make carveouts iq-dependent
wow i hate this so much
itās neat how the cartooning gets lazier and lazier as it goes though
holy shit you really werenāt kidding about how lazy it gets. thereās a bunch of frames that are just text Iām not gonna read on a black background???