Evinceo @ Evinceo @awful.systems

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Least annoying A/B test.

This guy's idea of thermodynamics is basically... he thinks that speed running universal heat death is... the highest calling of life?

Kinda the slowest and least exciting way to annihilate the universe, but it seems to exist mostly to justify irresponsible energy use.

Be careful, one us might escape the confines your imagination.

Isn't he paying for Twitter now? He has the blue check. He could actually save money by not posting.

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.

I genuinely wonder if years of training one's self to be "rational" makes you forget how fundamental stories are to the human experience. Journalists write stories about real life, for good or ill. If something happens in real life but isn't a story, it doesn't get printed. "Random lady plagiarized her thesis" is not a story, but "lady related to major plagiarism story also plagiarized her thesis" is a story.

His observation that EA suddenly got piled on is missing a more subtile point: lots of the coverage of EA was probably an extension of the tech beat and thus benefitted from the access journalism and rosey-glasses'd that was rampant in the early aughts before a more critical eye was cast in the last few years. Tech Won't Save Us does a good job explaining the phenomenon (ctrl+f "access" in the transcript) in part of its Musk series.

Scott is to Journalists as other Scott is to Women.

I actually didn't recognize the name (or I would have made a big deal out of it in the OP) but this being the CRT guy tracks.

I can't believe you targeted him 🎯 by googling his name and finding out he's eugenicist scum.

(Seriously, thanks for slogging through the comments to find gems like this.)

Sometimes the author includes images that are just a pun. A better illustration for this article might be a man angrly flinging a newspaper into a trash can.

Does any license slow you down

I certainly comply with software licenses so yes, that does slow me down. As they pointed out this precludes it from appearing in Linux distros and such.

Incidentally, I've gotten into very long and stupid arguments with people about Stable Diffusion's Definitely Not Open Fucking Source license.

“Real” musicians turned their nose up at digital music when it first came out

You got any evidence for that? What do you even mean by "digital music?" That's not a category I think musicians recognize. You may he confusing digital with electric which was not exactly as you're describing it.

Also notable because I don’t think it’s very often that eugenics grievances breach the surface in such an obvious way in a public siskind post

This one comes to mind.. Like EY's recent endeavor it's written as a roleplay so as to be nigh-unreadable by anyone without extreme tolerance for not getting to the fucking point.

I'm here for it.

I can’t understand people who watch streams of other people playing D&D but I know those are wildly popular.

I suppose people also watch other people play video games which is about the point where I started to feel like a confused out of touch elder.

When I tried to read it I felt like I was illiterate.

glowfic enjoyers

A real category?

Seems like a write-only medium.

But then, LitRPG also exists, much to my confusion and dismay.

Ok, I tried giving it a fair shake, and I guess it's got the same problem as every other forum roleplay: it's fun to roleplay, not fun to read someone else's roleplay.

many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

It's actually kind of an achievement that in the ultra-saturated Isakai genre they've managed to set a new standard in repulsive premises.