pja

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[–] pja@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

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

 

Looks like it might actually have happened.

[–] pja@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] pja@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pja@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] pja@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

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

[–] pja@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

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

[–] pja@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] pja@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

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

 

Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.