pja

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

They’re up to their armpits in a pit of self-loathing of their own making & unable to take any of the proffered help because their self-imposed ethical system doesn’t permit it.

Profoundly sad is exactly what it is.

[–] pja@awful.systems 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yup. Discoverability in Discord servers is dire. The privacy issues are the bonus shit topping.

“How dare you not read through six months of discussion threads in order to find the last time your question was answered” is such a great way to welcome newbies to a project.

Discord is actually pretty good at the thing it was designed for: realtime comms between friends, both text & voice. It’s terrible at everything else & I wish people would stop using it, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen any time soon.

[–] pja@awful.systems 31 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Discord is terrible. But it’s also easy to set up & easy wins out over good but annoying every time.

[–] pja@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wat indeed.

Twenty minutes, in a language you hadn’t seen before? Sure.

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

Molly White has been doing fine work.

So, having effectively run off with $billions of real people’s money, what next for the effective altruism crew? A pivot to AI doom-mongering?

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

High-end stats is kind of Taleb’s thing, so he gets to be as insufferable as he likes dunking on IQiots imo.

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

Yeah, he needs an editor. But the relentless dunking on IQiots is worth the verbiage imo.

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