I already wasn’t going to read this screed, but now I’m definitely not going to read it. Sheesh.

The power level curse where your characters get too powerful for there to be meaningful stakes?

who tf is this?

They’re a self-described gay, furry ex-mormon who seem to have latched onto the rat & rat-adjacent communities (like EA) in the hope of finding a substitute for the certainty they used to find in religion. Last I heard they work for the Blocked&Reported podcast, i.e. Jesse Singal et al., alongside their job in the US military. (edit: their Twitter claims they’re a law clerk? I guess they moved on.)

On the surface they seem well meaning but naïve, the company they keep (perhaps) being a reflection of that.

For the rat & rat-adjacent soi-disant “communities” David is like the bogeyman. You see his name used in places like SSC to stand in for the otherwise nameless woke menace that’s coming for their precious bodily fluids.

I regret to inform you that Trace is hate-reading awful.systems too & has posted this comment on their Twitter.

You’d think these people would have learned by now that there’s no upside in them spending their precious time on this earth obsessing over why a group of people don’t like them, but nevertheless here they are: drawn like moths to the flame.

Prolix insanity is kind of a Rationalist / Rat-adjacent calling card.

This is going to be a banger, I can feel it.

Definitely not one of the most heavily armed states in the USA.

Are FTX creditors being made whole in $ at time of liquidation or in whatever shit/alt-coins they happened to hold at FTX at the time?

Who knows? It’s a classic “buy the rumour, sell the news” stock story though, so there’s something about human psychology right there.

BTC shills are always pushing for the next big thing that will pull the mass buyers in. ETFs were going to be it this time around. I suspect a lot of people were holding onto BTC / not selling into the recent run-up in the hope they were right. If it turns out that there’s no demand there’s an awful lot of selling pressure out there: Miners are holding a lot of stock & the halving that will halve their income is only a few weeks away.

High-end stats is kind of Taleb’s thing, so he gets to be as insufferable as he likes dunking on IQiots imo.

Yeah, he needs an editor. But the relentless dunking on IQiots is worth the verbiage imo.