Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

also explicitly meant as rationalist esoterica.

Always a bad sign when people can't just let a thing be a thing just for enjoyment, but see everything as the 'hustle' (for lack of a better word). I'm reminded of that dating profile we looked at which showed that 99% what he did was related to AI and AI doomerism, even the parties.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but he used to have forums, and then a blog, and then no blog and then a blog again, and then a hidden blog etc. Think Howard has only a few minor credits on some games, he always came off as a bit of a weirdly combative nerd who thought he was right and the smartest in the room and didn't get that people didn't agree with his definitions/assumptions. He is a big idea guy for example. One of his comics was also called 'the atheist, the agnostic and the asshole' so yeah. The 00's online comic world was something.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I never read 8bit. I read A Modest Destiny. Wonder how that guy is doing, he always was a bit weird and combative, but when he deleted his blog it was getting very early signs of right wing culture warrior bits (which was ironic considering he burned a us flag).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Yes but basic dnd does have a lot of racism build in, esp with Gygax not being great on that end (nits make lice he said about how it lawful for paladins to kill orc babies). They did drop the sexism pretty quickly, but no big suprise his daughters were not into it. It certainly helps with the whole hierarchical mindset. My int/level is higher than yours so im better than you stuff. And sadly a lot of people do have trouble keeping both seperate (and even that isn't always ideal, esp in larps).

But yes this, considering the context ks def a bit of a case of some of their ideologies, or ideological fantasies bleeding through. (Esp considering, Yud has been corrected on his faulty understanding of genetics before).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Well if the bubble pops he will have to pivot to people who pivot. (That is what is going to suck when to bubble pops, so many people are going to lose their jobs, and I fear a lot of people holding the bags are not the ones who really should be punished the mosts (really hope not a lot of pension funds bought in). The stock market was a mistake).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure if anybody noticed the last time, but so they get isekayed into a DND world, which famously runs on some weird form of fantasy feudalism and they expect a random high int person to rule the country somehow? What in the primogenitor is this stuff, you can't just think yourself into being a king, that is one of the issues with monarchies.

E: ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

slaps moon You can make so much computronium from these atoms.

E: shit no that is wrong, I used the term computronium correctly, if it was Altman he would have called it unobtanium

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Found a solution to the Fermi paradox, and solved the problem of all the 'dark matter', any advanced society just puts a dyson sphere around their galaxy, that is why we can't see or hear from them.

(Yes, this is a subsneer for the silly Altman remark. The whole solar system not just the Sun (I do support walling off The Sun)).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

And how it fused Buddhism with more Christian religions. Considering how often you heard of old hackers being interested in the former.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Free people have less prodictivity, time to wirehead everyone! A Brave New World!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'set them up with'

Anybody want to bet if they did it for free?

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