David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 days agoLightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money backmessage-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareLightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money backDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
Funding beg: (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven’s big fundraiser The story: Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back
minus-squareblakestacey@awful.systemsMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-218 days agoYou might think that this review of Yud’s glowfic is an occasion for a “read a second book” response: Yudkowsky is good at writing intelligent characters in a specific way that I haven’t seen anyone else do as well. But actually, the word intelligent is being used here in a specialized sense to mean “insufferable”. Take a stereotypical fantasy novel, a textbook on mathematical logic, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Ah, the book that isn’t actually about kink, but rather an abusive relationship disguised as kink — which would be a great premise for an erotic thriller, except that the author wasn’t sufficiently self-aware to know that’s what she was writing.
minus-squareblakestacey@awful.systemsMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoGah. I’ve been nerd sniped into wanting to explain what LessWrong gets wrong.
You might think that this review of Yud’s glowfic is an occasion for a “read a second book” response:
But actually, the word intelligent is being used here in a specialized sense to mean “insufferable”.
Ah, the book that isn’t actually about kink, but rather an abusive relationship disguised as kink — which would be a great premise for an erotic thriller, except that the author wasn’t sufficiently self-aware to know that’s what she was writing.
Gah. I’ve been nerd sniped into wanting to explain what LessWrong gets wrong.