yeah, subculturally they're unrelated strains
like, just factually in terms of history, they're unrelated strains. LW rats come in a straight line from the Extropians in the '90s. The previous-millennium skeptics have crossover with those guys, but they're not the same as a group at all.
how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat
i need to ping ludicity for a pod
Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it
Olivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0
a heartwarming start to your day
Balaji's free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately
Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.
looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything
there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren't going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it's a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn't really have a compelling use case in its own right.
i mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism
i saw TPOTs on Twitter going "shit I know him"
yeah, they mostly thought the lesswrongers were annoying weirdoes when they perceived them at all, e.g. rationalwiki