Due to the victims wishes (which I was aware of the time of posting), of this all not to harm EA, I have decided to delete the post. We saw it here and talked about it, feel no need to leave it around so it can spread to people with even less context.

It sucks how much time in tech is spend on 'sorry this tool we recommend before suddenly is no longer free, or removed some options (either totally or into the paywall part) so now we will have to look for something else.

Seen it happen to simple csv editors for example.

Check the guys profile. He took some random remark from Gwern indicating what looks to me like human interest, as some sort of commandment.

My first instinct was to dismiss him as an oddball—until a friend told me I was dealing with a legend of rationality. I have to admit: I nearly shit myself. His comment got more likes than the post I’d spent years working on.

Someone with, what, a 152 IQ wanted my accounts of surviving bureaucratic military hell? And I’m the same guy who applies scientific rigor to Pokémon analysis

(The text is bolded etc in various places which I didn’t reproduce)

Another sneer on the subject: https://bsky.app/profile/tef.bsky.social/post/3lz7fdou4uk2y

"In case you’re not sure who dhh is, he’s a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like “i am smarter than you” and “foreigners bad”

rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast"

Followup by somebody else:

“I posted here about him driving at Le Mans in 2024, and several people told me that he’s disliked and mocked as much in the motorsport community as he is in the tech community.”

Yeah, I figured I would need some web automation script for that, I have looked into them in the past, but never gotten far with it before something else was more important. Still silly that is needed and will hit the servers harder than an API would. Just strange priorities.

When I looked at ‘your interests’ in the past it was so incredibly wrong I resisted the urge to update it because I though ‘sure if that is what you think is important to me fine’. Gotta make sure the basilisk can’t simulate you ;).

Ratelimits would be the big worry, heard people reached those by just deleting tweets by hand. And the whole like system is broken anyway. If you remove enough of them by hand you get in the situation where tweets show in your list but they do not look like they were liked by that account. (I always had the suspicion the whole likes system, which people got mad over a lot is badly implemented anyway, and that explains the weirdness people saw, a thing this story seems to confirm).

I also heard blocklists put a high strain on the twitter so not going to look into removing that. (Not sure I can even find the list anymore anyway or at least a complete list, mine always stopped after 100 accounts or so, while I block a few more than that).

Wonder if, esp considering the DHH situations this is sort of a nazi bar style takeover. Where the people who don’t want to make a fuss let in the nice but iffy people who then go mask off, and let the rest in. (The thing the far right accused the left of doing, in a bit of projections). But I know nothing about the politics of anybody involved, could also just be a regular hostile takeover.

(Doesn’t feel like one just looking at the rubycentral bsky account for a second though. They do have an amazing spin on it. It was to protect against supply chain attacks (also a link to an email article of them, which just feels weird)).

I just don’t want to be used and surveilled. Still need to get this shirt

Haha Standplaats moves fast.

Doing my screaming into the void offtopic thing, but the Dutch parliament, consisting of the the liberal VVD all the far right (PVV, FVP, JA21) and half the extreme christian (but not far) right (SGP the reformed/protestants (*)) , and the conspiratorial partially far right farmers party (BBB) accepted a motion (also important to note that these are not that meaningful, nothing has changed legally) by the far right to declare antifa a terrorist organization.

Congrats to everybody here now being terrorists in the eyes of the Dutch gov. Ah the joys of living in an American colony.

*: Even less relevant to this sub, but perhaps interesting, did you know we have a so called bible belt in the Netherlands? See this wiki page and look at the voting results graph. (while there is no direct graph our second very christian party (The CU who often also votes with them (but didn’t this time because they are not that extreme) also generally gets their votes from this area. What makes this downright weird is that these voters are basically from our rural areas, but on the line that historically splits between protestantism and catholicism. But all these votes are more from the protestant side. Some sociologists prob could/can have written some interesting papers on that. So it can’t just be explained by pillarisation. Hope you enjoyed my random scream into the void which I tried to make somewhat interesting by talking about parts of our weird political situation.

(Bonus detail, the prot/cath split line is also the line of 'do they celebrate carnival really enthusiastically or not, for which the rule is, if you want a real party go to Maastricht (sorry link in Dutch), as it combines several styles of carnaval with its own thing (there are also some small dressup particularities, but as I don’t know them specifically. Great fun if it is your thing (or so I have been told)). Anyway the further south the better (we have different names for the carnaval styles even, ‘Bourgondisch carnaval’ vs ‘Rijnlands carnaval’ for example))

That reminds me I still need to wipe my reddit an twitter archives. Wonder if wiping it all in one go would cause more trouble for them, or if deleting it slowly (or overwriting with random words in the case of reddit) causes more changes in the datasets and messes with them more like that.

Yeah yes good point on the intent. Thanks for the correction on the tone. Cant just go on that from one quote without context.

Weird story perhaps. Bit I also once created a sort of ‘rate your fellow students’ system as a joke. (It was more a ‘had done interesting things’ point system). Only it was created because we were trying to convince someone we had this at a gathering, and I tosses together some nicknames (obv I wasn’t going to use real names) and points randomly. And the moment I noticed that people outside of the direct people involved (still members of the same social circle) took it too seriously and came up to me to tell me private things to increase their score, I changed the code to just return ‘ha, this was all just a joke created to convince X we had done it’. Not my proudest moment, but this is how I’d think people should behave if it is just a joke and if the ‘its a prank’ isnt just an excuse.

This also caused me to become quit the anti ‘rate/record your fellow students/social circle’ systems btw. It is annoying how often the idea returns, and how much you have to argue this is a dumb idea.

So in short, if it is just a prank, why is it still up when it is hurting people.

Considering the reputation of the USA and how they keep to agreements, nobody (except the EU) is going to keep to those anyway. And the techbros who are supposed to be on the Rationalists side help create this situation.

Im not worried, im trying to point out that kids take time to grow and teach and this makes no sense. (Im ignoring the whole ‘you dont own your kids, so making superbabies ro defeat AI is a bit yikes im that department’).

Even for Kurzweils ‘conservative’ prediction of the singularity the time has run out. 2045. It os a bit like people wanting to build the small nuclear reactors to combat climate change. Tech doesnt work yet (if at all) and it will not arrive in time compared to other methods. (At least climate change is real, or well sadly enough).

But yes, it is a scam/hopium. People want to live forever in the godmachine and all this follows from their earlier assumptions. Which is why the AI doomers and AI accelerationists are on the same team.

We should ask what his opinion is on Charlie Kirk’s murder, or antifa, things will get really spicy then I think.

Which all seems pretty reasonable tbh. Quite modest.

I also noted a hint of Serpiroth posting in there with the whole ‘History will prove me right!’ bit. Wonder where it will go.

Lol you seem really invested in this idea. Seems to be an important part of your identity, so much so it seems to have reduced your critical thinking skills.

Turns out I wasn’t trying to get a horse to drink, but a wolf.

(Yes, I intended it as a self-deprecating joke about trying to reach people who can’t be reached, and im now turning it into a joke about selfawarewolves. And because I think too highly of my jokes and do not want people to miss my meaning, im also explaining it).

Anyway, odd thing to say about a cult incubator in which the head honcho is pro bombing datacenters.

This is the stance of a lot of people when they first learn of or get skeptical about the Lesswrongosphere. Not a stance you can hold for very long when you read more and more of their work with a critical eye.

Or you find another of their blogs where Steve Sailer is a beloved (but sometimes begrudged) regular. Or when you notice that big twitter race and IQ guy and eugenicists started in Rationalism. Or when the EA people themselves admit this is a huge problem. Or… Etc. Drink horse drink!

The one racist rat pet owner is gonna be so mad. ‘i might be a nazi, but im not a nerd’.