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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,

  • maolEnglish
    12·
    2 年前

    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.

    • selfMAEnglish
      6·
      2 年前

      the computer church also occasionally does LSD

    • GorillasAreForEatingEnglish
      6·
      2 年前

      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.

        • geriksonEnglish
          4·
          2 年前

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

      • maolEnglish
        4·
        2 年前

        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?

        • geriksonEnglish
          6·
          2 年前

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

          • maolEnglish
            4·
            2 年前

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

          • selfMAEnglish
            3·
            2 年前

            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

            • geriksonEnglish
              3·
              2 年前

              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.

              • selfMAEnglish
                2·
                2 年前

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

                • geriksonEnglish
                  3·
                  2 年前

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

  • swlabrEnglish
    7·
    2 年前

    Inner? EY is 100% outwardly chuuni.