Phil

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • PhiltoButtcoinVoughtCoin
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    34 months ago

    The power level curse where your characters get too powerful for there to be meaningful stakes?


  • PhiltoSneerClubThat tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out
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    5 months ago

    who tf is this?

    They’re a self-described gay, furry ex-mormon who seem to have latched onto the rat & rat-adjacent communities (like EA) in the hope of finding a substitute for the certainty they used to find in religion. Last I heard they work for the Blocked&Reported podcast, i.e. Jesse Singal et al., alongside their job in the US military. (edit: their Twitter claims they’re a law clerk? I guess they moved on.)

    On the surface they seem well meaning but naïve, the company they keep (perhaps) being a reflection of that.



  • PhiltoSneerClubThat tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out
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    5 months ago

    I regret to inform you that Trace is hate-reading awful.systems too & has posted this comment on their Twitter.

    You’d think these people would have learned by now that there’s no upside in them spending their precious time on this earth obsessing over why a group of people don’t like them, but nevertheless here they are: drawn like moths to the flame.










  • 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.



  • 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.


  • ^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.