Effective altruism, a name I haven’t heard for a long time.

shit I’m a bit jealous! I can’t wait for the fucking day I no longer have to think about these fuckers

awaiting their painfully contorted version of Purple Rain

also

ie the eventual safety team reach out included one of their ppl asking me to tell them what investigation vibecamp did, and i found out that they don’t tell ‘junior members’ of the safety team about past things

yikes

that feels/across as an intentional way to set that team up for future failure (and, at a guess, sets up a plausible excuse to yeet participants when they fuck up, combined with making things disappear)

random memory time!

I recall one of the people from the original rave generation here (ZA) once telling me about them taking GHB in combination with something else (I forget what), with a positively-framed comment of “it makes you feel like your eyes are aflame” — never understood the appeal, especially for that. so much so I’ve never even wanted to look the compound up on psychonautwiki

the rest of your remarks wrt goings on over in the bay area echo impressions I’ve gotten from things. kinda surprised to hear ket is that big - any idea how recent it is? I wonder whether it came about following from the findings around ket as a positive treatment for depression?

Seconding the core sentiment here

Those that have gone through abuse and hurt already have a lot on their plate, and having to handhold others through it is a lot of work - try to be mindful of what you might be asking from another

To me, this is more akin to LARPing “Leave Britney alone!” than it is serious political activism.

I will be 0% surprised to learn that aella et co got paid 5+ figures for this shit

been mulling about these fuckers over the weekend and it’s absolutely wild how far they are wilful participants. self-identified chosen fuckwits, even if a number of them are (or at least, start out as) weaponised useful idiots

incredibly frustrating

think there was a mod note a while ago (@dgerard? I think?) that nsfw was no longer required

gap’s closer now

I was wondering why the name Kevin Roose sounded familiar and ah, right

aww, poor babies. if only they didn’t literally have the leading nrx thinkers as figures of note in their own community makeup! alas, difficulty: impossible

ah yes quillette, that fine bastion of whitewashing

the best-researched article I know of on gender differences in chess

just… the absolute weirdest thing to pick? like, fucking seriously? or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

Unfortunately in this case the problem is you (as a non-frequenter of this sub (which is explicitly about dunking on these fools)) coming in with no context, although I’d agree with you in principle otherwise

Also it sounds like that game-EA thing could do with a sneer on techtakes

you know

I saw the profile/person photo used by the NYT piece, read the pull-quote that amoeba shared, and just mouseover’ed the urbit mention (and thus saw the username)

and from that I made a guess that “wow this sure does sound like someone in the TPOT sphere (and who did that thing visa keeps telling people to do)” (which is to incessantly talk about your shit)

but surely I can’t just make such guesses, basis unfounded

ah. right.

ah yes, quantum entangled blockchains, that’s what we need to solve the scalability problem! that’ll fix it right up!

kinda continues to surprise me how many people don’t know the, uh, roots of the Star Wars bits

“It was really about the Vietnam War, and that was the period where Nixon was trying to run for a [second] term, which got me to thinking historically about how do democracies get turned into dictatorships?” Lucas said at his Skywalker Ranch earlier this month. “Because the democracies aren’t overthrown; they’re given away.”

(source)

I was wondering whether he stole the idea after they tried to get a musk tweet / published this / etc. No way to tell if that’s what happened though, and they’d probably never admit it if it did