Oh good, I was hoping for a terrifying, fungus-related dystopian nightmare today

2012: I'm a rationalist! 2014: rationalist is old hat, I'm gray tribe 2016: oh no, "gray tribe" was co-opted by Thiel bros, guess I'm just a rationalist again 2018: I'm a post rat! 2020: oh no, "post rat" was co-opted by astrologers. back to rationalist 2022: I'm TPOT! 2024: welp

All laws should have a sunset provision that they expire in ten years unless someone is willing to actively defend them and get them renewed

This might sound schizo, but technology companies are increasingly messing with things they don't understand and are likely conjuring actual demons from the void into our lives with stuff like this.

gizzard tiktok would be wild

Mira knew he was a grifter for a while. I mean who says "don't know what LORAing is" and then later say "ah yeah, didn't know what that means in that context, I know what Lora is ahah"

Nanyue update:

Tim Skellett Never been more serious. If the imperial advancement ladder had been based around technical skills rather than wordcel ones China would have hit the industrial and scientific revolutions within a few decades. All of the factors were there.

Twice Blind Problem: they tried raising horses in the central plains. They didn't grow as big/strong there as on the steppes, which was a major part of the reason they needed to secure the Hexi Corridor.

Ollave Shinto matrialism baby. Let's build the AI overlord and worship the forests.

What people don't get about solar power: The panels are SO CHEAP that we're going to basically have two separate electricity markets: almost free electricity during the day, and expensive electricity at night

No further *relevant* changes will occur. Thermodynamic changes (aka "nonmeasurable changes in microstate") are still necessarily occuring.

Aleksi Liimatainen I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky.

Dylan O'Sullivan Counterpoint: since you have access to all art ever created through your phone, art feels less special to you even though artists are breaking their backs to bring you extraordinary work at unprecedented volume.

This is why the Hebrew people invented the Jubilee and made it sacred. "Permanent revolution" indeed!

Yeah this aint gonna end well