As a reminder, I called this in 2004.
that sound you hear is me pressing X to doubt
Yud in the replies:
The essence of valid futurism is to only make easy calls, not hard ones. It ends up sounding prescient because most can't make the easy calls either.
"I am so Alpha that the rest of you do not even qualify as Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons"
The man's fingers making contact with the woman's flesh have given him the first stirrings of an erection, but they cannot hold her soul back from fleeing her body.
I'd offer congratulations on obfuscating a bad claim with a poor analogy, but you didn't even do that very well.
A quick xcancel search (which is about all the effort I am willing to expend on this at the moment) found nothing relevant, but it did turn up this from Yud in 2018:
HPMOR's detractors don't understand that books can be good in different ways; let's not mirror their mistake.
Yea verily, the book understander has logged on.
The UK had a parliamentary election using First-Past-The-Post two months ago. Good grief.
"We're not saying it doesn't have its flaws, but you need to appreciate the potential of the radium cockring!"
People just out here acting like a fundamentally, inextricably unreliable and unethical technology has a "use case"
smdh
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it's called "founder mode" it's about how to run your company as a founder and how that often goes against traditional management practices. it's basically what i already do but paul graham created a cool name for it in his latest essay, you know who paul graham is? y combinator?
This text is followed by an image of a man and a woman sitting in the audience of some public event. The man is talking at the woman while holding one hand on the back of her neck. The woman is staring past him with eyes that have seen the death of civilizations.
Also the "banking the unbanked" arguments from crypto fanboys before that.
(in the voice of Zoidberg taking careful notes) "Avoid ... spreading ... despair ..."