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bashfulb.bsky.social
@bashfulb.bsky.social
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The thing is, I have always assumed that everything I do online is visible to everyone, esp those with root/admin access, so this is really NBD to me.

I am not dismissing anyone else's concerns about this, if it needs saying. We call make our calculations. For example, I don't run Chrome.
July 20, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Terra Ignota's Genderless society is somewhat ... similar although it is the result of religious-gender oppression and an anti-religious backlash
July 23, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Is it possible to want really long hair for both aesthetic and euphoria reasons
July 22, 2024 at 8:22 PM
leader of a cluster of dictatorships is also open
July 19, 2024 at 9:40 AM
basically less-intense national/racial/etc verbal jousting is a more preferable outlet to actual violence and armed conflict
July 19, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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Building and running prisons, gulags and various detention camps will be a booming business if Trump gets back in power
July 17, 2024 at 2:57 AM
this is ingrained in engineering
July 19, 2024 at 2:01 AM
shouldn't it be "has survived the voting rights act"?
July 19, 2024 at 2:00 AM
the luckiest scenario is that she flees and takes the kids with her
July 16, 2024 at 10:16 AM
also he will piss off the really hardcore racists by having a Hindu Indian wife
July 16, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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ending no-fault divorce, the weird horny kind of natalism, kooky ideas about monetary policy that sound like a crazy guy handing out pamphlets on a street corner, friendly with teenage Nazis, practicing adult convert tradcath. vibes fucked beyond belief
July 16, 2024 at 1:08 AM
there are also trans rationalists too y know
July 16, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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I was never on the LessWrong forums, but I spent way too long paying attention to the weird group of SSC-related rationalists who kept forming schism communities because mods wouldn't let them be racist enough.
July 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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There were these guys and they had like the opposite of the enlightenment, like it was the dark enlightenment, and they called being racist about IQ "race realism," and they wrote 10,000 word blog posts on Blogger,

"OK Grandpa it's time for bed"
July 15, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Really not a big fan of the way Trump has brought the into the limelight.

Similarly not a big fan of the way LLMs have given the MIRI weirdos more prominence.

I dread the day someone IRL asks me to explain Yarvin or Yud to them.
July 15, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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I went to college with Curtis Yarvin. I have enough nerd cred that Curtis is only the 3rd most famous person I've played Quiz Bowl with, but he is such a paradigmatic case of nerdrage that I want to shove him into a locker.
July 15, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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It's honestly wild that the VP nominee and a 600k word Harry Potter fanfic can both be traced to the same internet subculture.
July 15, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Also, how they behave can differ or change from stated beliefs
July 15, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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Right. The second question is also tough because it's possible to lean liberal on certain issues and conservative on others.
July 14, 2024 at 5:03 PM