Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Any mention of my name is now often met by a claim that I keep a harem of young submissive female mathematicians who submit to me and solve math problems for me, and that I call them my "math pets".

I see he did the whole 'making an accusation sound more silly to undermine it' thing here, nobody said things about a whole harem of mathematicians, who just solve math problems. Nice steelman. I expect nothing less of somebody who was the subject of seven broadway plays.

(Amazing he basically admits the story is true after that, but continues to debunk the strawman).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Developers of the 12-megawatt facility said it will bring jobs and investment to Nashville, but neighbors aren’t so sure.

The neighbors are right.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Doubt that is legal, but yeah good luck suing Thiel over an event like this and keeping a job. Stuff is so fucked. Remember when hackers were proud to leak this stuff, like how people worked together to go after scientology.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Cloudflare is about to get really familiar with North Koreans.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Blow the one who created Braid? (Because he has been known to be iffy for a while now (for example https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/7kp08e/jonathan_blow_the_witness_braid_thinks_women_are/ ).

only to later claim that actually you are Dutch and it is in your culture to be an asshole.

This is such bullshit, our idea is that we are direct. We don't get that this comes off as being an asshole. If they use this as an excuse to be an asshole (which is a step worse than being an asshole by being direct), they are worse than a normal asshole. (Really hope it wasn't somebody I know).

And sadly I don't have any good help to offer. I don't know either. And the manifesto not blaming wider society, and the profit seeking/capitalist elements is a bit silly.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do like somebody left a nice trap there:

You write "you can buy it here" but there is no link.

However, you can do better: the whole thing is available for free online. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html on the author's website is a good place to start; it has links to various versions of the book and also a little bit of explanatory material.

(Unrelated, hope Stross's recovery is going well, sorry for being a bit parasocial relationshippy here).

I like singularity sky more as a sort of critical book about how a post scarcity singularity would be easy to mess up. Very funny that it inspired the US to give free phones to Afghans to try and combat the Taliban.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is NP P or is NP not P, thats the question, by Scott Scottersons-Scottsson

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

Would me lying about doing impressions for YourNetworkIsHaunted's cat be enough? I both dont know the cat and didnt actually do impressions? (Brb gotta update my dating profile).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean I even get that you would use some embellishment for entertainment value. But if the person who made the play writes you and corrects you, you should stop doing that, esp if you are doing the whole Rationalism. But yeah, that isn't what the rich and powerful do, they make up shit and ignore corrections all the time. The power of being stubborn.

A while back somebody from themotte (when it still was on reddit) said about sneerclub vs themotte that the sneerclub wanted to do what is right, and they wanted to figure out what is true. And I often think about that when people in the Rationalist space do not really want to figure out what is true.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A jokingly Whorfian mind-lock, putting the jargon file in a sie like that and not converting it to a wiki. Second one, wanting to put everything in a wiki.

Not sure if smoothbrains and IQ levels are correlated, so perhaps 160IQ smoothies exist next to 100IQ smoothies. (Do agree the insult is perhaps not a thing we should be using (and this last sentence was also the only serious part of this post))

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah he was a prequel of whats to come re Gamers acting normally.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

This article also reminded me of how when they are trying to promote AI agents they dont get further than shopping, a secretary, or help you cook with random ingredients. No real human connections

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