3CR! You should pitch a Sneer Club show to them.
maol
joined 2 years ago
My answer to bike theft is to scrap all the cop cars and make the police ride bikes. After the 500th police bike theft you bet they'd find a solution
Eurgh!
Yeah, I'd seen one or two of his popular posts but I only became familiar with him and his whole deal after he died.
Isn't this what happened to that creepy bloke on Tumblr. Maybe all rationalist-adjacent bloggers eventually shit themselves to death after trying to fix their health problems with punishing exercise regimes and dodgy supplements.
Who could have predicted this except for everybody ! There's a reason none of these galt gulches ever get built.
My other kook-watching sneerhobby is Rod Dreher and there's been bleedthrough from him too! Strange bird, Vance...
Just found out from a screenshot in a tweet that Marc Aandreesen considers Nick Land to be some kind of patron saint of "techno-optimism". Setting aside Land's ugly views about everything... I didn't think optimism was what he was known for. More like grasping, desperate, disgusted embrace of the onward march of capital.
From a piece by Scott Alexander, I think.
In another forum I'm in, someone posted this article and asked if someone, anyone could understand it. I kept schtum.