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@ESYudkowsky: Remember when you were a kid and thought you might have psychic powers, so you dealt yourself face-down playing cards and tried to guess whether they were red or black, and recorded your accuracy rate over several batches of tries?

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And then remember how you had absolutely no idea to do stats at that age, so you stayed confused for a while longer?


Apologies for the usage of the japanese; but it is a very apt description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūnibyō,

  • @maol
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    1211 months ago

    No matter where he went he would start a cult, wouldn’t he. His belief in his own greatness is too strong. If it was the 1920s he’d be running a spiritualist church or something, if it was the 1970s he’d be running an LSD church or something, but unfortunately it’s the here and now and he’s running a computer church.

    • @selfMA
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      611 months ago

      the computer church also occasionally does LSD

        • @selfMA
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          511 months ago

          when your cult leader doesn’t understand tolerance so you have to start faking hallucinations after the first week

    • @GorillasAreForEating
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      611 months ago

      He’s the L. Ron Hubbard of our times, a sci-fi author turned cult leader of the information age just as Hubbard was for the space age.

        • @gerikson
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          411 months ago

          For some reason this sent me into a Kilgore Trout rabbit hole

      • @maol
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        411 months ago

        Innit. Any word on him having links to satanists? At least those 50s cults inspired some interesting art. Can the same be said for the wonkish cult of EA?

        • @gerikson
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          611 months ago

          Long-ass blog posts are an art form, right?

          • @maol
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            11 months ago

            Wilhelm Reich’s orgone stuff resulted in one cracking song 30 years later (orgone accumulator). Maybe we’ll have to wait that long.

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          • @selfMA
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            311 months ago

            it’s weird I found out about Diaspora (also a really good book) from the rat-adjacent crowd posting excerpts on the orange site, but Egan keeps sneering at that portion of his fan base in his books

            • @gerikson
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              311 months ago

              I tried reading one Egan book (Incandescence) and had to give up because it was 90% infodump. Glad to see he’s mocking rats though.

              • @selfMA
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                211 months ago

                god damn, maybe my internalized ideal of a sci fi author is Asimov but not a shithead? depressing. I need better sci-fi

                • @gerikson
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                  311 months ago

                  no, the fault is mine. He’s written tons, I tried this and bounced off it. I might take a look at Diaspora

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