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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.

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[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty

When the very first thing you say about a character is that they “have money in crypto”, you may already be doing it wrong

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6 points

The FDA thing gave me whiplash what the fuck, what did I miss

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3 points

evil regulators prevent sv megaminds from unrestricted access to adderall probably

idk what specifically, there has been a thing with anti-cavity bacteria that didn’t work or maybe that’s about some transhumanist bs

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6 points

I remember from my misspent youth reading Scott’s ramblings a fair bit of antipathy towards FDA regulations in particular. What I can only attribute to ignorance of history makes them fall prey to the standard libertarian talking points about slowing down drugs that could improve people’s lives, never mind the fact that in the absence of those regulations everybody who could hypothetically benefit from psychedelic nootropics or whatever would have been too busy dealing with phocomelia to care.

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2 points

Eurgh. I’m now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.

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13 points

wow i hate this so much

it’s neat how the cartooning gets lazier and lazier as it goes though

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7 points

holy shit you really weren’t kidding about how lazy it gets. there’s a bunch of frames that are just text I’m not gonna read on a black background???

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9 points
  • has money in crypto
  • skin is actively melting
  • will keep monologuing even when unconscious, like a broken video game cutscene
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