a place for it

    • @bitofhope
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      141 month ago

      I’m so used to bad rat science being expressed in obscurantist math and quantum physics jargon that the kindergarten neuro woo like “each half-a-brain has a 1 in 20 chance of being ontologically Good” and “nonbinary people have one half of their brain be transgender” throws me off.

      Where are the Planck units and the h-bars, category theory, maybe something about Turing machines or Gödel? Can’t you at least throw in a square root or something? Is this all it takes to stroke the a modern STEM dweeb’s ego? I guess all the talk about “debugging” and “jailbreaking” compensates for the infantile aesthetics of the crankery.

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      141 month ago

      extremely normal thing and definitely not cult shit (ziz):

      Something I don’t think I ended up writing, was a random conversation on what it meant to be good and a Sith. In which I said, something like, well, I’m doing whatever I want, no matter what, which in my case is good things.

      also seems weird that vassar went from failed let-me-google-scholar-that-for-you fake medical startup to a niche rat cult leader. can’t any single one of these people get a normal job?

      • @mountainriver
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        91 month ago

        How are you going to get them back to the farm a retail job once they’ve seen Paris tasted cult power?

        • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          111 month ago

          pol pot was in paris and tasted cult power and all it took to get him back to farm and out of power was Vietnamese invasion. personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

          • @JFranek
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            141 month ago

            personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

            But aren’t they used to dealing with VC?

            • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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              101 month ago

              imagine marc andreesseen on a beat up bike with equally beat up akm strolling through californian forests (currently on fire) trying to deliver rice and beans to starving venture-capitslist guerillas

            • @froztbyte
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              115 days ago

              it took me until today to grok the VC double entendre

              • @froztbyte
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                115 days ago

                (life has hella been burning mental bandwidth)

      • @jonhendry
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        514 days ago

        I’m starting to think maybe it was a mistake to let nerd media take over the world.

    • @saucerwizard
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      101 month ago

      I’m glad the non sanitized details are making it out.

    • @o7___o7
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      Footnote 1: As a consequence of this approach to thinking and life, rationalists are, as a rule, unbelievably prolix, wall-eyed, and tedious writers, and also polyamorous.

      “Wall-eyed” hit me as odd, so I go to look it up: https://www.wordnik.com/words/walleyed

      The first entry:

      adjective Often Offensive Affected with exotropia.

      Well-played, Max!

      • @jonhendry
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        315 days ago

        Merriam-Webster says “marked by a wild irrational staring of the eyes”

        Which sounds a bit more accurate than a mere physical quirk.

    • FRANK.MCCONNEL
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      @dgerard I can’t help but imagine what a Zizian would do if one endarkened them with the knowledge that lettuce in salad was not allowed to grow to maturity (flowering) before being harvested and consumed