TinyTimmyTokyo

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[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

I get that, but most Christians don't make plans to freeze their bodies after they die.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

With his all-consuming fear of death, Thiel is about as far from being a Christian as one can get. All his antichrist talk is a nakedly transparent attempt to gas up the rubes so they remain on the side of the billionaires even after Trump gives up the ghost. He doesn't believe a single thing he's saying.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A nice thread linked in the comments on Peter Woit's blog: https://xcancel.com/VikingFBR/status/1962222479008841730

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 83 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I know it's been said thousands of times before, but as a software developer I've never felt a greater sense of job security than I do right now. The amount of work it's going to take to clean up all this slop is going to be monumental. Unfortunately, that kind of work is also soul-deadening.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Last year McDonald's withdrew AI from its own drive-throughs as the tech misinterpreted customer orders - resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error, and another having hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order.

Clearly artificial superintelligence has arrived, and instead of killing us all with diamondoid bacteria, it's going to kill us by force-feeding us fast food.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's bizarre and pathetic how Scott disabled comments on his blog post but is now using Peter Woit's blog to carry on a debate with all the people horrified by his views.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Never heard of Ishida, but he sounds like he's yet another one of those people for whom politics and belief are just "vibes". There's no principle, no rational basis, just vibes. I feel like more and more of the world is becoming this way. Or perhaps it always was this way, but the Internet has just made it more evident.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Given how often it shows up in his writings, this incel victim narrative is a linchpin to his personality. He even trots it out in the middle of this genocidal screed -- in what on first glance seems to be an irrelevant detour. But it's really not irrelevant. His self-inflicted psychic damage is painfully real and manifests itself in all sorts of toxic and sociopathic ways, including abject dehumanization of an entire population.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It immediately made me wonder about his background. He's quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, I'd say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 16 points 3 months ago (11 children)

In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Clown world.

How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. They'll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.

 

Molly White is best known for shining a light on the silliness and fraud that are cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3. This essay may be a sign that she's shifting her focus to our sneerworthy friends in the extended rationalism universe. If so, that's an excellent development. Molly's great.

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