gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

maybe someone with a camera in SF can pop downtown and document this gathering

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZ7CWfo4tGDAS3wEg/michael-trazzi-s-shortform?commentId=yq38DLKfe7EMciyAB

apply exposure comp b/c everyone will be pasty white

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think it's a specific genre of reportage where you objectively[1] report what you observe and let the reader draw their own conclusions.


[1] problematic term, engage!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

"Judges love this one weird trick!"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

Don't knock scaffolding, at least it has everyday uses.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

cue a thriller where a disgraced techbro billionaire is hunted by the surveillance system he gleefully created

scratch that, that will be a popular reality TV show enjoyed by millions

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

but but but blockchain

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (9 children)

How convenient being able to offer a solution to the problem you yourself created.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the 2 people cosplaying as lawyers are just as bugshit as he is.

edit yeah they're SovCits

Finally, our orders are not invalid simply because the clerk signed them. We have already told Irion and Egli that our orders are not void when the clerk signs them in this very case. Whiting v. City of Athens, No. 24-5886, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 13507, at *1 (6th Cir. June 2, 2025). And the Supreme Court has twice denied petitions for mandamus from Irion and Egli demanding that the clerk stop signing our orders.

(italics in original, bold my emphasis)

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The end result is that he will die, just like every other human being ever.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

isn't Luckey the dude mostly known for awkwardly and overweightly jumping wearing a VR headset on the cover of Time or something

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

No, they're allowed and users usually post an archive link to get around the paywall.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the Nscale mentioned in the post the outfit which once employed Fake Satoshi?

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

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