the acquaintance was curtis yarvin apparently

How Yarvin Got Pwned: He increasingly came to identify the truth as the opposite of whatever people who have been wrong in the past think is true, instead of searching for and adhering only to what is actually true.

Update: they denied the facts that I said they wouldn’t deny and now I’m sinuously weaving around the facts like I said they would be.

I don't want to go to grad school but I do want to take ~half a graduate level math course a term, every term, until I retire or die

watching you watching me

Claude Welfare W

obviously this email could easily be (and probably is) hyperbolic, but here’s some context on the possible identity of the Olga mentioned here.

the american legal system caught the epstein-barr virus and it caused a cancer that spread through our society

someday if food gets cheap enough maybe we could subsidize grocery stores with ads. towards automated vertical farming and food that can be paid for with attention.

Oh you’re non-physicalist about the mind? Like Jeffrey Epstein?

If my child ever came to me talking about “mogging” or being “mogged,” I’d simply remind him, or her, that Rilke wrote —“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

while looking through cognates for an unrelated project, i stumbled on *m{a,e}gh-, which interestingly reframes the famous clarke quote

I met Amanda Askell at a workshop many years ago, and what she told me has stuck with me since: "stop psychoanalyzing people on the internet based off random anecdotes, you insufferable gossiping morons, just talk to the LLM directly and see if you like it"

new horseshoe theory just dropped

incorrect negative polarization rules everything around me