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Are they drawn to the cult because they are obsessed with status, or does the cult foster this obssession? Yes.
It's almost endearing (or sad) that he believes (or very strongly wants to believe) his experience is "typical", exploring the boundaries of what you are attracted to typically doesn't involve this much evo-pysch psychobabble, or even this much fragile masculinity.
Some of it is driven by translation agencies, which will refer work to freelance translators.
I would say the biggest gap is that many customers aren’t even bothering to use translators at all, and the ones that do realize it needs fixing up don’t really understand the work involved, many people misunderstand translation as being a 1-1 process, and think that Machine translation got you most of the way there.
It’s also the are we willing to pay that much more, when the shitty translation is “good enough”.
One big issue is that translation as a low barrier of entry, and many people will accept stupid work at stupid rates, and to keep rates high you have to prove the added value.
(Proving the added value as also gotten harder, as some clients even more often than before will “correct” your work before publish it, as highlighted in the article)
It's also a lot less pleasant of a task, it's like wearing a straightjacket, and compared to CAT (eg: automatically using glossaries for technical terms) actually slows you down, if the translation is quite far from how you would naturally phrase things.
Source: Parents are Professional translators. (They've certainly seen work dry up, they don't do MTPE it's still not really worth their time, they still get $$$ for critically important stuff, and live interpreting [Live interpreting is definetely a skill that takes time to learn compared to translation.])
Yay! some nice
Dont Dead
Open Inside
Abundance Agenda horriffying strings of words.
How to save liberalism (without being boring)
Congratulations! You appear to be failing so far—on both counts!
I love that their stated "Pitch us!" suggestion box email address pitches@theargument.com
doesn't appear to have any registered MX records.
I wonder if this is an intentional shredder meme situation (I doubt it), and if not how long it will take them to notice. (I'm assuming that's the domain they wanted but haven't quite been able to buy it yet, not very serious.)
EDIT: Fixed already.
Because of course why have a data ~~center~~ when you can have an ecumenskatasphaira.
Pressing F for doubt, looks like a marketing scam to me.
the oldest elements of TESCREAL appear to date back to cyberpunk science fiction in the 1980s
Nitpick: Cosmism was birthed in 19th century Russia, complete with "Death is the enemy" "Let's ressurect everyone" (using science) "Let's conquer the universe" and proto-eugnenics of the "common project of humanity as transforming all into great men".
I attempted a point by point sneer, but there is a bit too much silliness and not enough cohesion to produce something readable.
So focusing on "Post-critique":
OP misspels of some of his "enemy" authors, in a way directly cribbed from Wikipedia suggesting no real analysis.
[...], such texts included Ricouer's Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, and Kierkegaard's works [...]
Ricouer should be Ricœur or at the very least Ricoeur. (Incidentally OP also makes a very poor summary of his work)
Complete and arbitrary marriage of epistemic post-critique and literary post-critique, which as far as I can see have nothing to do with each other beyond sharing a name, and in fact even seem a bit at odds with each other in how they relate to recontextualisation.
I would say this is obviously bot vomit, but I have known humans to be this lazy and thickheaded.
PS: We also think that there existing a wiki page for the field that one is working in increases one's credibility to outsiders - i.e. if you tell someone that you're working in AI Control, and the only pages linked are from LessWrong and Arxiv, this might not be a good look.
Aha so OP is just hoping no one will bother reading the sources listed on the article...