I’ve avoided reading Greg Egan until like last year because I entirely expected him to be a cold stemlord shithead and people only talk about his earlier books that have more to do with consciousness and identity and stuff, which these days feels very zzzzz, but he is SO COOL and SO FUN!!! He cares in a deep way about people, lived experience, about societies, he loves physics and maths in themselves because they’re beautiful and fun and not because they’re ways to look smart or reveal the secrets of the universe, his books are very beautiful. Complete opposite of Yud, Scott, nostalgebraist (I have a grudge) et al.'s silly books.

what a strange way to sell your grift no one knows what it’s for. “bad people want to force me to tell you what it is we’re building.”

(Maybe don’t shoot at people just because they’re standing up though.)

Huh. I kept reading the victim was killed in a “road rage incident” but you’re saying he was the one who was apparently raging in the first place? That’s even more uncomfortable.

Yeah I never trusted them, from the vibes I’ve got they’re definitely buying into all sorts of conspiracy bullshit. I don’t think the tweet is in good faith obviously, but I associate this sort of socalled “schizoposting” with cryptofascists.

I would guess, yeah. But 80% of X looks like this, so I don’t know what’s engagement farming and what’s normal posting in a community of radical idiots anymore.

Yah, that’s what I mean. Doom is imminent so there’s no need for time travel anymore, yet all that stuff about robot from the future monty hall is still essential reading in the Sequences.

Ah, no, look, you’re getting tortured because you didn’t help build the benevolent AI. So you do want to build it, and if you don’t put all of your money where your mouth is, you get tortured. Because the AI is so benevolent that it needs you to build it as soon as possible so that you can save the max amount of people. Or else you get tortured (for good reasons!)

Ah, but that was before they were so impressed with autocomplete that they revised their estimates to five days in the future. I wonder if new recruits these days get very confused at what the point of timeless decision theory even is.

What a piece of shit

Interesting that “disease is hardly a problem anymore” yet homeless people are “typically held back by serious mental illness”.

“It’s better to be a free, self-sustaining, wild animal”. It’s not. It’s really not. The wild is nothing but fear, starvation, sickness and death.

Shout out to the guy replying with his idea of using slavery to solve homelessness and drug addiction.

These people probably think Karl Marx is Satan, but my god at least he was able to understand and respect Adam Smith better than whoever’s trying to magick wealth out of this absolute idiot soup! Looks like capitalism the ideology is just as unsustainable as capitalism the economic system.

Making Turing machines useful

Or, how I got Doom to run on a Turing machine

i love sigbovik so much

And yet it posts.

liking romance novels is now a hardcore porn addiction

Wow Trannyporno really put that depraved woman in her place

You should have DM’d me and if you had I would have gladly re-written the thread or added a post with additional crediting. My DMs were open for you, and you knew that from experience, because we have DM’d before. As a courteous person, I’m not going to say what about in public, but I am going to say that you knew better than to blow up like you have.

… did they cyber?

lmfao my goodness isn’t he just the most pathetic little prig

Yeah, to be honest I’ve always had a certain fascination and respect for musicians who put out reams and reams of facile music and counterfeit hits, usually relatively small artisanal operations. I collect some of the stuff. It’s really the streaming platforms I hate.

Well, look at it this way: streaming platforms were filled with worthless inauthentic slop well before “AI” generators got popular. It’s their business model.

Having a dead celebrity who you’ve never met and was murdered when you were ten feature on your track is in very very bad taste actually.

Corbyn is, like, famously bad at recognising bad faith fascist signalling, so it doesn’t not make sense.