yeah basically

I’m convinced Stephenson is personally very right wing but also smart enough not to advertise it publicly.

Monkey paw curls

as always trawling LW’s AllPosts section is as they say in the biz a target-rich environment

wake up babe the LWers are talking about removing parts of their brains

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puv8fRDCH9jx5yhbX/johnswentworth-s-shortform?commentId=fbKesfzHifdsZAxyf

great they made a shirt making them easier to avoid

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eq2aJt8ZqMaGhBu3r/zach-stein-perlman-s-shortform?commentId=a2xgz7bevKKHQ8BEj

here’s an update on the modified bacteria in the mouth startup, TL;DR it’s much harder than they thought it would be and is it really worth pursuing when we are all gonna be killed by Robot Satan (spoiler of course it is the grift must go on)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg4fTBEneAEqprHyk/lumina-probiotic-past-and-future

“GPS will stop people reading maps!” buddy you ain’t seen nothing yet. Technology is allowing people to get lost better, faster, and at scale.

as usual the illustrations are genius

Anyone know when and why polyamory became a Rationalist shibboleth?

not Libertarian in the organized political sense, more like steeped in the dominant California ideology

I had short odds for that entire submission being nuked but apparently there’s enough non-bad stuff there for the mods to keep it up.

Right on cue https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tEMHHpZmxK95Nvd2d/joey-yudelson-s-shortform?commentId=tpzbyui6pyh3nXgwx

the effort of rampant libertarians to jumpstart a social movement is going as well as expected

PauseAI Has ‘officially disendorsed’ PauseAI-US

19th C mine operators enter the chat “harumphh back in our day…”

Zitron is a better writer though. Yud is bland personified.

So not only are these facilities driving up electricity prices and sucking up all the water, they’re not going to provide any extra jobs in the vicinity? Genius marketing Meta.

my feeds are full of news of the death of Wendell Berry who I have absolutely no relationship to but this quote is relevant to our interests

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man’s life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death.

I’m just going by memory here but I seem to recall Roam being either weirdly EA-adjacent or culty or both. Don’t quote me.

she shares Roam links regularly on LW.

This is why you use your kidsguinea pigs but apparently that’s not disruptive enough.

it’s been a day and as expected some really shitty takes have surfaced among the comments

I especially enjoy the person stating they willingly paid money to Drew Devault and are surprised and upset he made decisions they disagree with.

(I respect Drew as a person but he’s probably one of the most opinionated people online. To expect him to just take your money and cater to your every whim is… naive)

He is responding to the Thiel-signal going up against the sky - there is anti-AI sentiment afoot!