It's rdrama, they're in another league of weird. Fun fact: TheMotte is using a fork of rdrama's code.
The core value, presumably, of individual liberty. Do what you want with your property. And they're using it against them by... using their property in a way that creates a negative externality that bothers them.
Rhysider's editorial comments come off a bit naieve and even a bit childish at times. His good attitude is sort of infectious though.
Remember, AI is created and maintained by humands too
Isn't he paying for Twitter now? He has the blue check. He could actually save money by not posting.
I genuinely wonder if years of training one's self to be "rational" makes you forget how fundamental stories are to the human experience. Journalists write stories about real life, for good or ill. If something happens in real life but isn't a story, it doesn't get printed. "Random lady plagiarized her thesis" is not a story, but "lady related to major plagiarism story also plagiarized her thesis" is a story.
His observation that EA suddenly got piled on is missing a more subtile point: lots of the coverage of EA was probably an extension of the tech beat and thus benefitted from the access journalism and rosey-glasses'd that was rampant in the early aughts before a more critical eye was cast in the last few years. Tech Won't Save Us does a good job explaining the phenomenon (ctrl+f "access" in the transcript) in part of its Musk series.
Scott is to Journalists as other Scott is to Women.
What a major coinkeydink that the same discussion is happening on a totally unrelated and unaffiliated forum. 🙄
Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.
If only rationalist shaming helped reduce overthinking.
Also there's this obsession with calling this folly 'experimenting with government' as though they aren't always trying the exact same thing over and over again.
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Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.