Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

There is also this Rationality is Systematized Winning by Eliezer Y.

(Which has the glorious line: "Reason is just a way of doing things, not necessarily the most formidable; it is how professors talk to each other in debate halls, which sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't", showing he never went to university).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

$599,970!?

That is almost triple our prime minster gets.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Snort with Splunk!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, dont see me linking to this post by Gelderloos as fully supporting his other stances, more that the whole way Scott says nonviolent movements are better isnt as supported as he says (and also shows Scott never did much activism). So more anti scott than pro Peter ;).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Remember how slatestarcodex argues that non-violence works better as a method of protest? Turns out the research pointing to that is a bit flawed: https://roarmag.org/essays/chenoweth-stephan-nonviolence-myth/

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unrelated to the article/vid itself, thanks for making both a video, podcast, and an article. I know it is a lot of work, but I really appreciate being able to read it than having to watch a video.

"That’s the words of a guy you need to watch your drink around." chefs kiss.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

I assume it is a bit of the old SA leaking through. What is your opinion on anime David? (Otoh, it does remind me of the tool crystaldiskinfo (which reads out the SMART data from disks) which by default seems to push you to use their variants which have anime skins).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There is a wall decoration at the Enschede central station listing all the important companies started there by the local university and all but one I had not heard of (which is prob my fault) but those also all sounded like 'Floorp' I get a chuckle every time I walk past it.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Careful, don't slander Comic Sans. It is an asshole, and has the party people on its side.

(I also think the font gets too much flak, perhaps to really show our distaste of the comment make it the fraktur font, and flip it around (I did recently learn that flipping a front upside down/around makes it very hard to read for people who have trouble visualizing things in their head, which I had not thought about as being an issue)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Yes! at scale at scale at scale at scale

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm a lot more afraid of the recursive effect of this joke. We could have at scale at scale.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

All twelve fingers? Wow.

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