fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

ye, who are we to doubt superpredictors like them

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 16 points 7 months ago

they should go straight to mercury pills, worked* for chinese alchemists

*worked in the sense that massive heavy metal poisoning can stop corpse decomposition for a while, which was taken as an auspicious sign in the context

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

he had a blogpost about how amphetamines risks are overstated and it's fine actually for more people than usually prescribed https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

scientology but less coherent and with worse seafaring

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (10 children)

i'll risk a guess that running ritalin-dispenser-as-a-service type business catering to overly confident rationalists might get him a pretty penny

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

technical bulletin: development and combat uses of self-sniping nerd

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (12 children)

He starts his recent article on AI psychosis by mixing up psychosis with schizophrenia (he calls psychosis a biological disease), so that tracks.

wait, this man is a psychiatrist? or is that another scott

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago

it's almost as funny as when one time chatbot told vibecoder to learn to code

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

get yourself into a career where not doing things carefully makes them either to stop working or generating accidents, it'll usually stop managerial assholes from forcing you to do things wrong way

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i'm gonna infect you with covid stay away

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

slow is smooth, smooth is fast

the most productive way to do things is to do it deliberately and with good planning, at least in my field which is not coding related in any way

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