they were on bluesky in the early days, recruited by the rationalists and neoreactionaries at bsky corp

the queer shitposters drove them the fuck off

the TPOTters were most put out that nobody accepted “oh no i’m not a nazi it’s just my friend is” as an excuse

some liked pushing people around and being tastemakers (Watson, Myers)

not only is this the opposite of reality, your supporting link names neither

yes, it’s Urbit failing to reach its target

Part of the late 2010s blockchain-academic-industrial complex

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-angel-investors-on-holy-land-march-2023

here’s the author’s previous ramble mentioning urbit

reads like she was angling for Dimes Square funding and didn’t get it

while the antifa FP crowd long jettisoned all Yarvin’s works, it occurs to me that the fa FP crowd don’t seem to talk about urbit or Yarvin any more either

Short answer: Potentially yes—for long-term holders, this dip screams opportunity. At sub-$85K, you’re buying at levels not seen since early 2025, well below the October peak.

Bottom Line: Bitcoin isn’t a “safe” bet—it’s a high-conviction play on decentralization and scarcity. If you believe in its 10-year trajectory (as Warren Buffett might quip: only buy what you’d hold if markets closed for a decade), dollar-cost average in now.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

• What is the difference between dollar cost averaging and throwing good money after bad
• Should I put all my savings into $FART
• Will bitcoin get me a girlfriend

he’s already done “don’t worry about your <100 score, IQ tests are meant to show black people are dumb”

ah, but it was a very defective essay if you don’t bother reading it

You have fun playing in the sandpit, thinking about your magic box. I’m gonna smoke cigarettes and play slot machines for an hour.

thread winner

the existence of a brain doesn’t show you can simulate it in a computer. the universe is not necessarily feasible to simulate down to the atoms, as the essay points out. did you read the essay?

this is an extended “nuh-uh”

Philosophically, right, if you allow me infinite resources, right, to do a thing I don’t actually know how to define,

that was posted in 2012, and I am quite sure that a lot of rationalists latched onto rot13 as the mild encoding algorithm of choice because it was standard for spoiler concealment in HPMOR discussion.

compare me on Scientology for example

tho I slung Scn jargon well enough that I’ve had an ex member refuse to believe that I wasn’t also an ex member

not a load bearing belief, but one of the things Ziz was specifically pissed off about

a better engineer than Oliver

did Grover do his own three-phase wiring, no it takes Bayes for that

NOTE: on looking again, I’m not sure if he asked a chatbot at the time (presumably the GPT 3.5-based ChatGPT) or if he’s saying it would have gone better if he had asked a chatbot. Not that the second is one dot better, and may be worse.

i uh posted