gerikson
On this most terrible of online days, "enjoy" this LW attempt at humor
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3GbM9hmyJqn4LNXrG/yams-s-shortform?commentId=ik6ywoQYsGrrQv8Dm
edit there are more submissions on the theme of "humor" on site now. Let's just say the cringe factor outweighs the humor factor by a large amount.
omg I don't have anything better to do
- Lesswrong Liberated - they implemented a chat interface to redesign the LW site according to different themes. Mostly boring
- LIMBO: Who We Are, What We Do, and an Exciting High-Impact Funding Opportunity - probably not AFJ? Can't really tell. Bad day to launch a call for funding if not
- Announcing Doublehaven with Reflections on Humour - protip do not try to reflect on "humour" (native brit speaker or pretentious LWer? flip a coin) with boring examples of "ratty humour"
- ACME Alignment Co Announces: Aligning Humans - this one is easy to call as AFJ
- Giving up on EA after 13 years - lol it's funny because EA means "Electronic Arts" here
- "You Have Not Been a Good User" (LessWrong's second album) - also seems to be a "straight" post, not a joke, but released on AFJ b/c then the community can "cut loose"? I dunno, and I am never gonna listen to any songs by "Fooming Shoggoths" in my life
- Announcing EA Omelas - "[Extensively co-written with Claude Opus 4.6]" you have been warned. Considering how every rat coverage of Omelas has been utter shit I'm just posting the link, not reading it
Kinda crazy that these date from 2025 and no-one has noticed (or bothered to complain) until now.
“an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.”
Nah, Anthropic got an injunction against the "supply-chain risk" designation the other day, and I don't think Team Trump-Hegseth has enough mental endurance to remember going after them.
Yeah it's tragic, but I think it can be "explained" in that incorrect idea that measles isn't that bad, really, and it was "natural" to get it. I don't know the exact lethality differences between the diseases in question - just that for an otherwise healthy 20 year old university student, being forced to stay at home because of a disease mostly killing octogenarians is easier to protest against than something that's killing you and your fellow ravers.
Remember when Scott A was so mad his name was in the NYT he wilded out and got half of HN to cancel their subs? Those were good times, when I wasn't jumpscared by his pasty face on random websites.
As a counterpoint, there's a local outbreak of meningitis in Kent (UK) and panicked kids are lining up for vaccinations there.
COVID mostly hit the invisible elderly. It's hard to imagine what would have happened if kids 0-6 were the most vulnerable.
Depriving the steel beams of oxygen would help too...
followup, here's a real substack interview with one of the originators of the collab novel
https://afraw.substack.com/p/first-dig-the-latrines
to be honest sounds like semi-fascist shit to me.
A LWer is super-impressed by the time travel fantasy Illumine Lingao (an example of Chuanyue)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=J4YGrY26Ezt5oMsot
Listen to this pitch:
the vast majority of the book is devoted to discussing every single technical aspect in excruciating well-researched detail. you don't simply have a paragraph about them deciding to buy guns, you get an entire chapter of different gun experts arguing back and forth about exactly which gun to buy based on maintainability, range, differences between civilian and military models, semi automatic vs fully automatic.
Apparently they're quite unaware of the extensive number of works in Russian with similar themes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_travel#In_Russian_fiction
maybe someone with a camera in SF can pop downtown and document this gathering
apply exposure comp b/c everyone will be pasty white