bitofhope

Damn, I was kinda hoping the Ladybird guy wouldn't turn out awful but nah, can't have shit in IT.

Fuck, that's good

yabaied

Glowfic sounds like fan fiction written by CIA agents.

In my ideal version of Omelas there's a secret institution where people like me are given vast power and wealth to think about how to solve the tortured child issue.

The title already says it's a lexture by Thiel— oh wait sorry I see what you mean.

I think "making up a guy to get mad at" is already an idiom as is.

I still read xkcd regularly and think it's pretty good. I don't think "we" as a community need to have a particular opinion of Randall Munroe or his work but personally I think he seems alright and I enjoy the things he makes.

Seems like a stretch to assume that comic does anything to recruit rationalists. If you're not already in the rat pipeline it's just a pretty good joke about probability and if you are, it's still a better example of Bayesian reasoning than whatever the rats pretend to do.

When the "criti" for Amazon is just that it's "boring", I feel we're in plain old hype territory.

somehow not the first or second TMBG reference I've seen today

Honestly that just seems to imply the concept of legitimate scientific racism even more.

I dunno, an AI non-proliferation treaty that gives some rat shop a monopoly on slop machine research could conceivably boost human scientific progress significantly.