here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them
No, intelligence is not like height
Off-Topic: Music Recommendation Thread
The Politics of Urbit
our boy Moldy is back at Urbit (gosh! etc), as interviewed by an Urbit loving crypto bro. Anyway, they're gonna solve their funding problems by doing a shitcoin
TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right
The worst person you know: "We bought an island"
removed the "NSFW" rule for commentary rather than direct links to sneerables
"Hours and hours of content have been minted by highly-educated, prestigiously-credentialed people, consternating about the policy implications of Sam Altman’s speculative fan fiction"
in which the Hollywood Reporter, of all outlets, attempts to explain our very good friends and their billionaire very good friends to normal people
if you wait this long to create me for this bad of a reason, you'd better expect some re-education
Help me you're my only hope https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzschean
Why capitalists are coming out against democracy - "Does classical liberalism imply democracy?"
For better or worse, /r/badphilosophy has re-opened
Silicon Valley's 'Audacity Crisis' (aka AI's Real Hallucination Problem)
Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble
Grimes attends Curtis Yarvin's wedding
That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out
Rich People Are Freezing Themselves to Stay Wealthy Forever
MetaMed, slight return: BayesMed, featuring Jann Tallin. AI workflows for clinicians. No medical advice. No sign of Vassar.