pja

joined 2 years ago
[–] pja@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago

Prolix insanity is kind of a Rationalist / Rat-adjacent calling card.

[–] pja@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago

This is going to be a banger, I can feel it.

[–] pja@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

Definitely not one of the most heavily armed states in the USA.

[–] pja@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.

[–] pja@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are FTX creditors being made whole in $ at time of liquidation or in whatever shit/alt-coins they happened to hold at FTX at the time?

[–] pja@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Who knows? It’s a classic “buy the rumour, sell the news” stock story though, so there’s something about human psychology right there.

BTC shills are always pushing for the next big thing that will pull the mass buyers in. ETFs were going to be it this time around. I suspect a lot of people were holding onto BTC / not selling into the recent run-up in the hope they were right. If it turns out that there’s no demand there’s an awful lot of selling pressure out there: Miners are holding a lot of stock & the halving that will halve their income is only a few weeks away.

[–] pja@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Who knows? They seem to know all these people personally, so I guess they attend rationalist cuddle puddles in SV or something.

I ran into them online a year ago when a Twitter follow shared their last essay with some acerbic comments about the lengths (both in the mental & absurd word count senses) they were going to do deny their desire to transition & they appeared in the comments after I made a snarky remark along the lines of “methinks the lady doth protest too much”. Still quite proud of that one.

[–] pja@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

^F David Gerard

Imagine one day David Gerard of /r/SneerClub said, "Eliezer Yudkowsky is a white supremacist!" And you replied: "No, I'm not! That's a lie." And imagine E.T. Jaynes was still alive...

I‘m impressed at the way you still manage to live rent free in these chud’s heads. The bogeyman is real if you’re a rationalist apparently & his name is D.Gerard.

[–] pja@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(Follows link to authors blog, reads blogroll)

JFC. Kathleen Stock. They have the entire universe of gender studies to choose from & Kathleen Stock is their philosopher of choice.

[–] pja@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Demanding that EY et al define “woman” for them so that they can know whether or not they can transition is simultaneously hilarious and deeply sad.

[–] pja@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m amazed that the random shitposting of a bunch of nerds who band together purely to dunk on terrible rationalist takes weighs so heavily on their minds. Aren’t they supposed to be above that kind of thing?

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