yes this one’s a sneerclub

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    4 months ago

    pivoting my startup from blog posts about how my video game’s AI could break out of the game and into the real world, just like a shitty action movie from 2009, to a medical startup that assumes auto-immune diseases are exactly like politics and we must therefore build nanomachines that debate your cells into perfect health

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      Oh, you’re not satirizing, that’s nearly a literal quote. They actually think debatebro conflict resolution solutions will be applicable to autoimmune disorders.

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        4 months ago

        the rationalists have plagiarized so much from that one episode of Are you Afraid of The Dark? where the computer virus escapes VR into the real world through the serial port in the kid’s hand

        e: I got the name of the cheesy 90s horror series confused for the name of a cheesy 90s survival horror game!