Society for Egalitarian Technology and Ethical Computation

Yep. See https://awful.systems/post/9709966/12683107

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

I think his eyebrows are trying to do the universal quantifier ∀

Yep. Cf. the pervasive idea that the true fundamental purpose of intelligence is casting Persuasion spells.

I have an ATProto login and am skimming the threads before I have to go and do other stuff for a few hours. I came across a link to this podcast, which looks interesting. The transcript of the first episode (I’m more of a reader than a listener) barely gets going before (content warning for sexual assault by intoxication) this:

E: … right after I graduated from undergrad, I went on a date in San Francisco with a Harvey Mudd alum who revealed to me over the course of the date, which is at like a fancy prohibition style whiskey bar. That part was cool. You had to make a reservation. So I thought that was, I was like, that’s a good sign. That’s really that’s cool of him. He revealed that he and his friend had written a musical based on Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. And I said, Oh, well, I don’t want to brag, but I’ve written a pretty highly acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises fanfic, and he broke in and said, It’s not a fanfic.

A: Were they saying their musical wasn’t a fanfic, or that rationality wasn’t a fanfic?

E: The musical was not a fanfic. And I didn’t know what to say to that. […] And then he also, this is the guy who he tried to get me drunk when I didn’t want to. Uh, super rational. Very rational. Yeah, rational. I want to have sex with this girl and she doesn’t want to have sex with me. The rational thing to do is to change one of those conditions, and I can’t not want to have sex with her. Um, and told me that he did not ask his female friends for dating advice because if you’re a hunter, you ask a hunter and not a deer. These were the same guys. He was the same guy.

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🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶

It reads like the overwrought, misaimed, indulgent clunkiness that I produced around age 15. Except slimier. At least what I wrote at age 15 had science is awesome! at its core, rather than science is broken, follow my methods to become Clear Rational instead.

And here’s a relevant Reddit thread about how HPMoR was even worse when first posted.

All the doves are dead, Dave.

We lined up by body count.

People using this term to mean their number of sexual partners will never not be funny to me. Not always in the same way, but it’s always funny in some fashion.

“And what would you say is your body count, Will?”

“I thought new couples were supposed to rise above that kind of contest, Dr. Lecter.”

After all, it was a workplace where many employees lived together, and had multiple overlapping romantic relationships with their colleagues, while also essentially acting as each other’s therapists

“After all, it was completely fucked”

Heavy is the head that wears the Spirit Halloween golden trilby.

“…meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain” —some guy

neither left wing nor right wing but some secret third thing (batshit right wing)

Me, catching up with the edits: wow that escalated quickly

The video maker says that he doesn’t “want to have to censor my slurs for YouTube.”

There is a 2 hour 39 minute twitter video about how he was supposedly wronged,

The existence of a twitter video longer than Citizen Kane or 2001: A Space Odyssey as a thing in the universe means that we are all, in some percentage, wronged.

“Slot machine” is a good comparison for chatbot text extruders, but as an insult against ActBlue it misfires horribly.