OT:
Moldbug just reached my local subreddit and this feels really weird (in the bad way). This is a long way from Silicon Valley!
lol this got picked up by canadian media
Update! They are writing letters to Big Yud! https://archive.ph/2025.02.08-132157/https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ziz-zizians-rationalism-group-20149075.php
I wasn’t expected an unironic chaser honestly.
Also the Musk stuff was very interesting.
As for privacy well, Brent Dill has been running around UFO discords telling people he’s in hiding because the rats want to kill him. Make of that what you will.
Dozens of debunkings! We don't need citations when we have Bayes' theorem!!
I should also mention that Fnord fellow who has a thing with the sub is Brent Dill.
The current TPOT implosion
Is uh, anyone else watching? This dude (chaos) was/is friends with Brent Dill.
Cold viruses and bitcoin mining oh noes
Blood Music was way cooler then this just saying.
Aella and company want to put GM bacteria in your mouth
“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”
From the short investor spiel document. Also they want to just bypass the FDA?
Another twist in the Ziz saga (cw death/shooting)
On March 3rd, 2021, tumblr user "donttrythisathome" wrote a callout post naming John David Pressman, (aka JD Pressman, David Pressman, namespace, Ahimsa, JDP#4006, GabrilovichRatio#1509,) a serial se…
I don’t think I posted this before, but if I did lemme know.
https://archive.ph/bVUba
The rise of the new tech right
Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.
‘Before its too late buddy’: A Code Red Warning about TESCREALism
This is what happens when you spend two years unmasking a well-funded Silicon Valley “apocalypse cult.”
The Museum of Retro Technology
Its like tvtropes but for exotic IC engines.