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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
J. Oliver Conroy’s Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.
I feel like it still starts off too credulous towards the rationalists, but it’s still an informative read.
Between them, Scientology and the libertarians, what the fuck is it with these people and boats?
I assume its to get them to cooperate.
No he wasn’t.
No, Hariezer Yudotter does not know science. He regurgitates the partial understanding and the outright misconceptions of his creator, who has read books but never had to pass an exam.
This presumes that MIRI’s “research on AI risk” actually exists, i.e., that their pitiful output can be called “research” in a meaningful sense.
“Excuse me, Pot? Kettle is on line two.”
I looked up a video of someone trying to use a potato as a suppressor and was not disappointed.
if this is peak rationalist gunsmithing, i wonder how their peak chemical engineering looks like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cremation
@skillissuer
I’m fairly sure that a 50 gallon drum of lye at room temperature will take care of a body in a week or two. Not really suited to volume "production”, which is what water cremation businesses need.
as a rule of thumb, everything else equal, every increase in temperature 10C reaction rates go up 2x or 3x, so it would be anywhere between 250x and 6500x longer. (4 months to 10 years??) but everything else really doesn’t stay equal here, because there are things like lower solubility of something that now coats something else and prevents reaction, fat melting, proteins denaturing thermally, lack of stirring from convection and boiling,
it will also reek of ammonia the entire time
you undersold this
that guy’s face, amazing
@sailor_sega_saturn
He made a fancy coatrack.