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"Become plural like the universe" -Pessoa. (they/them)
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KINMUNE
The original text of KINMUNE was published by Michael Kirkbride on the Bethesda Official Forums (Bethsoft) on September 11, 2011. An updated version of KINMUNE was later published by Michael Kirkbride...
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while we're doing anniversaries, it's the fifteenth anniversary of KINMUNE
elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/KINMUNE
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do people still get horse_ebooks references? this one is 14 years old
unfortunately, as you probably already know, models bsky.app/profile/matt...
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias.
One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women.
console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women.
console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
September 19, 2026 at 6:56 PM
do people still get horse_ebooks references? this one is 14 years old
this passage is actually extremely prototypical yud, not in that the specific thing reoccurs, but in that this is exactly the thing yud would write about a topic like this and you can be prepared for the entire rest of his corpus mostly just from this, basically
it's specifically discussed approvingly by a character who is implied to be the usual "victim", so definitely an "oh they're talking about a whole different thing" sitch
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bojLBv...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bojLBv...
September 19, 2026 at 5:37 AM
this passage is actually extremely prototypical yud, not in that the specific thing reoccurs, but in that this is exactly the thing yud would write about a topic like this and you can be prepared for the entire rest of his corpus mostly just from this, basically
gloranthan astronomy:
usually when i hear people say that the moon is a planet, i just have to shake my head. like, yes, if it’s a full moon? okay. you’ve got me there. a full moon is a circle and therefore a planet. outside of that, though, a planet either has to be a circle, like jupiter, or a dot, like stars
September 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM
gloranthan astronomy:
when i stopped believing that linux was inherently more secure, then did the scales fall from my eyes
the number of times the answer to "where does your belief that <specific misinfo> is true come from?" is "reading Cory Doctorow" is really fucking concerning actually
September 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM
when i stopped believing that linux was inherently more secure, then did the scales fall from my eyes
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the other thing i keep thinking about is that if people wanted a space where identity was respected in heterodox ways and everyone is an ethical slut all of the time the furry community WAS in fact Right There all along, i promise you did not need to pal around with anti-woke techbros to get yr fix
September 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
the other thing i keep thinking about is that if people wanted a space where identity was respected in heterodox ways and everyone is an ethical slut all of the time the furry community WAS in fact Right There all along, i promise you did not need to pal around with anti-woke techbros to get yr fix
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AP a hotbed of tobagonian separatism apparently
absolute sicko behavior, this is from the 2026 AP Stylebook
did this fall through a time warp from 1926
did this fall through a time warp from 1926
September 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
AP a hotbed of tobagonian separatism apparently
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As with every religious text I’m aware of, HPMOR’s most famous, powerful, and immoral adherents are those who least understood it.
One key thing I think that makes it better is that Harry has legitimate flaws, and one of those flaws is being seduced by someone who’s selling fascism in Harry’s own language.
September 18, 2026 at 7:47 PM
As with every religious text I’m aware of, HPMOR’s most famous, powerful, and immoral adherents are those who least understood it.
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It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
September 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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one of the fun parts of being a public persona and known anti-rationalist is that people just start telling you about disgraceful and weird things they've done over the years. like half of what i know is because of this.
September 18, 2026 at 4:58 PM
one of the fun parts of being a public persona and known anti-rationalist is that people just start telling you about disgraceful and weird things they've done over the years. like half of what i know is because of this.
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i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science
September 18, 2026 at 5:08 PM
i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science
this is also why i am particularly grateful for this thread because the best previous resource for all this stuff may have been a pro-zizian website
oh, right: Brent Dill is the event that drives Ziz Lasota of the Zizians all the way off the deep end
September 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM
this is also why i am particularly grateful for this thread because the best previous resource for all this stuff may have been a pro-zizian website
thread that knocks the criterion of embarrassment out of the park
the Black Lotus story isn't really mine. i think this is probably the most thorough single telling of it.
black lotus the one that blew up and that directly implicated rationalist leadership. it is not, really, unique. i get the impression bad shit was happening rather a lot.
x.com/QiaochuYuan/...
black lotus the one that blew up and that directly implicated rationalist leadership. it is not, really, unique. i get the impression bad shit was happening rather a lot.
x.com/QiaochuYuan/...
x.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:05 AM
thread that knocks the criterion of embarrassment out of the park
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as it happens i can pretty clearly demonstrate the movement enables and promotes predatory behavior but the story's ugly. consider yourself trigger warned.
here's a time magazine article about EA group houses, polyamory, etc if you want prestige news about it.
time.com/6252617/effe...
here's a time magazine article about EA group houses, polyamory, etc if you want prestige news about it.
time.com/6252617/effe...
Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say
Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community
time.com
September 18, 2026 at 2:33 AM
as it happens i can pretty clearly demonstrate the movement enables and promotes predatory behavior but the story's ugly. consider yourself trigger warned.
here's a time magazine article about EA group houses, polyamory, etc if you want prestige news about it.
time.com/6252617/effe...
here's a time magazine article about EA group houses, polyamory, etc if you want prestige news about it.
time.com/6252617/effe...
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So my first point is that since they use sex as recruitment and ideological enforcement, no, sorry, the sex is relevant.
See here clearly using sex as ideological control. Aella offers sex as incentive to quit and blow the whistle on Anthropic. Three days later, someone does.
Prob a coincidence
See here clearly using sex as ideological control. Aella offers sex as incentive to quit and blow the whistle on Anthropic. Three days later, someone does.
Prob a coincidence
September 18, 2026 at 2:33 AM
So my first point is that since they use sex as recruitment and ideological enforcement, no, sorry, the sex is relevant.
See here clearly using sex as ideological control. Aella offers sex as incentive to quit and blow the whistle on Anthropic. Three days later, someone does.
Prob a coincidence
See here clearly using sex as ideological control. Aella offers sex as incentive to quit and blow the whistle on Anthropic. Three days later, someone does.
Prob a coincidence
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images that spring to mind unbidden, part 984: "the bartender was a mousegirl"
September 17, 2026 at 6:04 PM
images that spring to mind unbidden, part 984: "the bartender was a mousegirl"
(freedom of speech guy) harry potter and the methods of rationality was, overall, fine and even good
it turns out cognitohazards are real:
1: the sequences
2: hpmor
3: 80,000 hours podcast
4: ziz's blog
5: sankey diagrams
1: the sequences
2: hpmor
3: 80,000 hours podcast
4: ziz's blog
5: sankey diagrams
September 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM
(freedom of speech guy) harry potter and the methods of rationality was, overall, fine and even good
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This industry frames its regulations in this way because it has, at its core, a millenarian death cult that worships and fears AI as the cause of the end of the world, that feels compelled to create AI, and that at least somewhat wants to destroy AI as a field.
September 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
This industry frames its regulations in this way because it has, at its core, a millenarian death cult that worships and fears AI as the cause of the end of the world, that feels compelled to create AI, and that at least somewhat wants to destroy AI as a field.
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No other industry has ever framed any regulation in terms of "stop", "pause", or "slow down". Those are insane ways to consider any form of policy. Policy should prevent bad outcomes and encourage good ones, it is never about some specific speed.
September 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
No other industry has ever framed any regulation in terms of "stop", "pause", or "slow down". Those are insane ways to consider any form of policy. Policy should prevent bad outcomes and encourage good ones, it is never about some specific speed.
when i talk about "fucking alduin" btw i'm using it as synecdoche for the ability to have whatever kind of creative sexual enjoyment i feel like, with increasingly interesting language machines or without, and share the fruits, which are good, with partners. it stands in for every right i care about
September 17, 2026 at 3:45 AM
when i talk about "fucking alduin" btw i'm using it as synecdoche for the ability to have whatever kind of creative sexual enjoyment i feel like, with increasingly interesting language machines or without, and share the fruits, which are good, with partners. it stands in for every right i care about
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clowning is fun for everyone but the problem is that the normie takeaway is, now, "tech people have weird sex" and not "tech people have incestuously tangled power/consent structures the contours of which are worryingly relevant to domestic policy and the future of technology"
September 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
clowning is fun for everyone but the problem is that the normie takeaway is, now, "tech people have weird sex" and not "tech people have incestuously tangled power/consent structures the contours of which are worryingly relevant to domestic policy and the future of technology"
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A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago
September 16, 2026 at 7:58 PM
A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago
>everyone is mad at aella
ragnar lodbrok, still dead:
ragnar lodbrok, still dead:
September 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM
>everyone is mad at aella
ragnar lodbrok, still dead:
ragnar lodbrok, still dead:
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Age is a very good proxy for political knowledge
September 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Age is a very good proxy for political knowledge