dgerard

dgerard, 1 day ago

this is literally the entire impetus twitter.com/…/1789807772542067105

just this one tweet

https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/0b8d42c3-f3e6-4788-8969-bbde3900e030.png

dgerard, 21 hours ago

pretty much!

dgerard, 1 day ago

For those wondering about the LessOnline event, here’s the actual plan

dgerard, 1 day ago

a dance concert led by the Fooming Shoggoths, with many songs that didn’t make it onto their April 1st album

dunno about you, but that absolutely informs me about the event in fullness

dgerard, 11 hours ago

good to see that LessWrong is about improving human rationality to decrease the existential risk of superintelligent AI, and not long screeds on current political issues from a reactionary perspective

dgerard, 10 hours ago

fml i thought these were the smarter techies

dgerard, 2 days ago

looks like wordpress with a custom “faw” theme

dgerard, 1 day ago

Slack is already owned by Salesforce. Adobe tried to buy Figma but competition authorities blocked it. Notion is still owned by its founders and funders.

dgerard, 1 day ago

CRM as a service with a fucking ton of whatever dumb bullshit they think they might be able to sell you on top

the CRM as a service bit more or less works? probably? with work at your end? We use it at the day job and it’s like better than not. It’s the ultimate boring-but-functional product for enterprises.

dgerard, 1 day ago

point

dgerard, 22 hours ago

what notion is selling is hosting

dgerard, 2 days ago

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

dgerard, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Usable fibre broadband is part of the universal service obligation for British Telecom landlines now

dgerard, 1 day ago

Sam Bankman-Fried interviewed by Puck News!

this has been going around to great publicity from all!

it’s an insufferably vapid and self-serving rehash of Sam’s late 2022 crime confession tour. i can see why Puck grabbed for the exclusive, but jesus fuck nobody needs to hear from this conman again. Anyway, this copy isn’t paywalled.

dgerard, 1 day ago

came here to post that, amazing

dgerard, 1 day ago

frequent ACX commenter, Here he is on IQ and genes Very into citing OpenPsych as solid gold scientific fact. Race scientist, yes.

dgerard, 1 day ago

Lightcone are the guys convinced they will save the future of humanity by writing and hosting the LessWrong/EA forum code.

dgerard, 1 day ago

have you ever met an English-native dev who didn’t need to be trained out of the world being 7-bit ascii

dgerard, 11 hours ago (edited 11 hours ago)

Aha! It turns out Cremieux is the r/slatestarcodex poster formerly known as /u/Tr–yPorn0 (slur dashed out), or TP0 for those who don’t even want the slur in dashed-out form. A really persistent race scientist with a habit of (a) misrepresenting the papers he spammed as links (b) misrepresenting himself. He used to run a tiny blog as “Cremieux” when he was claiming to be an economist from Liechtenstein. Then he got pumped by the other race scientists. So I expect this to very much be Racist Fest.

some past hits from TP0:

• old.reddit.com/…/commenter_calls_hbd_junk_science…
• old.reddit.com/r/…/this_whole_exchange_is_gold/
• old.reddit.com/…/we_know_nigerians_have_low_natio…

his style is gish gallops and paywalled papers that turn out not to support his claims, and citing Emil Kirkegaard’s pseudojournals a lot

dgerard, 7 hours ago

Wildbow: “you know the Empire 88 and the biotinkers were bad guys in Worm right”

dgerard, 7 hours ago

it’ll be interesting to see his reaction to the room full of race scientists. I wonder how well they can hide their power level.