If I had a nickel for each time I’d read something where an HPMoR audio performance was juxtaposed with sexual harassment/assault, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s more nickels than I would ever have wanted to receive for that reason jesus fucking christ just give me the Cenobites’ puzzle box to solve so the chains can pull me out of here already

I wouldn’t trust them to be responsible for minors, first because nothing about them suggests they have the baseline level of responsibility competence to handle the ordinary “hey, watch this!” disasters that are a natural part of being young.

They are also incredibly shady and would be terrible role models, whether or not Lighthaven has a casting couch for influencers.

In other words, there’s a lot we don’t know, and the actual situation is worse by an unknown amount beyond what we can establish, but what we do know is enough reason not to send your offspring to Camp TESCREAL.

There are some leaps in that post which do not seem persuasive to me. E.g., it sure seems pretty well established by now that Bay Area Rationalist society involves trapping people in situations where sexual consent is coerced, because refusal would mean abandoning one’s career/entire social circle/shelter/hope of averting the apocalypse that one fears is coming. But the claim that the “flirt girls” at their weird little confab were actually sex workers? I dunno, that’s a step that seems unsupported by anything leading up to it. Likewise for the claim about CNC events at Lighthaven itself—that feels too close to saying, “Well, they’ve got the venue, where else would they do it?”

The chips can operate for about 15 minutes in space before needing to be shut down so they can cool off, said Travis Beals, Google’s senior director of product management for Project Suncatcher.

I feel like I’d need to be an actual teenager to invent a remark sufficiently scornful about this.

In which Heartbreaking.jpg and you-do-not-have-to-hand-it-to-ISIS.png war for sovereignty

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Those poor students.

Reported for promptfondling twerpitude, and I gotta say, I agree.

Dammit, people, sex and drugs were supposed to be cool

Prior discussion:

https://awful.systems/post/9637596/12625632

A bone-deep belief in “general intelligence” is vulnerable to exploitation.

Copied to the general HPMoR sneer thread top post.

Imagine the horror that ascended my spine when, to fulfill my moderator responsibilities, I read the reverse-chronological feed of new comments and saw that “greatest therapist in history” declaration, and then discovered who wrote it.

“after it’s solved* Navier–Stokes”

Does he really think he’s the only person in the universe so special

Yes.

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Goertzel also fell for Christopher Langan’s CTMU.

Yep. You’ve just earned yourself a click of the “eat a bag of jerkied dick” button.

The Levi-Civita symbol is, in programming lingo, a function that takes three arguments: epsilon(i,j,k) where i, j and k are integers that label the coordinate axes. Let 0 stand for the x axis, 1 for the y and 2 for the z. Then epsilon(0,1,2) equals 1. If we swap the values of any two arguments, we flip the sign: e.g., epsilon(1,0,2) evaluates to -1. Now, swap again: epsilon(1,2,0) must change sign again, so it evaluates to 1. But the sequence 1,2,0 is just the original sequence 0,1,2 read cyclically from a different starting point. In this way, we can work out what the value of the epsilon function is for any input. When the inputs are all different, the output is either 1 or -1, depending on whether the input sequence is “in order” or “in reverse order”. Write the numbers 0, 1 and 2 around a circle. Read clockwise, and you get one output; read counterclockwise, and you get the other. If two inputs are the same, then epsilon must evaluate to zero, because, for example, epsilon(0,0,1) with the first two inputs swapped is epsilon(0,0,1) again, meaning that the output must be minus itself.

Yeah, at best, “Kurzweilian h+” will be pseudoscientific guff. I suppose that keeping the lower strata of intellectually bad elements while discarding the worst of the social ones is progress, but, I mean, it’s kind of like saying you’re into your fad diet and LLM-generated supplement regimen and then looking over at RFK and saying “but that’s totally different!”.

I’ve lost it now, but somewhere in the replies to one of those threads was a person complaining that SneerClub was too much like beating up on nerds in high school. To which I say, first, here’s my blueberry bread recipe, and a nice photo of a winter sunrise, and my Star Trek fanfiction. We all friendly now? Good. Then let me suggest, cordially, that if you are continuing to think of social dynamics in terms of high-school hierarchies and shitty '80s movies well into adulthood, that is a you problem. If I can stop living as the gender I had in high school, you can stop letting your membership in a granfalloon lead you by the nose.