Maybe he realized it wasn't important after all.

He's exactly the Gilfoyle looking mother fucker you think he is.

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.

I still don't think cortical electrodes should even be described as a direct interface. A direct interface would speak action potential and connect to your spinal cord, like Ghost in the Shell or The Matrix. I do not see a lot of people lining up to test what would probably entail having your brainstem dissected!

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.

Aren't windmills traditionally hoisted into the air, whereas whales typically live in an underwater habitat?

Counting calories and abiding by your commitment to eat fewer of them is hard, hard enough that while it worked for me I can't just recommend it to everyone. Like yeah no shit eat less food. It's really hard to admit that there are limits to what people can do with willpower alone, especially if you live in a subculture where you think that being galaxy brained should allow you to do literally anything. There must be some reason, any reason, besides people not being fully 1000% in control of their actions.

This schism is heating up. Pretty funny, Yudkowsky has created a monster he couldn't control, just like he imagined... only the monster is AI fandom.

While I love blaming slatescott for things, I do think there's maybe a deeper story to the fascination with addies than slatescott blogging about it once.

A lot of millennials were prescribed stimulants as kids, enough that we have some level of folk knowledge about them. In Adderall Risks he more or less admits to handing them out like candy and he is far from the only (lol ex) psychiatrist to do so.

The article, while clearly endorsing stimulants as a safe nootrooic that everyone should take (and is good for the world now let me munch a few more pills 💊), is actually more of an apologia to convince people who are already using stimulants that no harm will come to them. Sure there's the usual amount of discovering an apple pie from scratch new atheist libertarian bloviating that obscures it, but he does that about everything.*

One funny aspect of his 'stimulants are required for modern work' argument is that he's basically endorsing the social model of disability, though more recently he has decided that expressing ableism to own the libs is more important than being correct.

*Except if he wants to sneak in an idea without you thinking about it. Those will usually be the hardcore nrx ones.

Somehow more confused people are stumbling into awful.systems than ever stumbled into sneerclub.

I slogged through the article so you don't have to.

Basically, there's a trio of very strange dotcom-wealthy folks who call themselves 'nonlinear' but really they're a guy, his brother, and his partner. They claim to be doing 'important work' and hire/defraud interns who live in their house, clean up their messes and get groceries for them, drive without a license for them, score drugs for them and traffic the drugs across borders. Also they isolate them from their families and friends, and have sex with them. This is considered inside the Overton window in the EA community, evidenced by the lack of pushback and the fact that this trio has not been run out of EA on a rail.

Does that help?