My favorite LessWrong story is the Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.

What kind of smart am I if I’m not particularly good at academia, or math puzzles, but, like, I really wish I was smart while still holding the exact same beliefs.

For GenX much more than later generations, they were exposed to propaganda as children saying that the main alternative to capitalism was tankies. So if you criticize capitalism, then you must support Stalin.

As if half of them are like Boomers and half of them are like Millennials, for some reason.

Depends on if there’s a lawsuit

After 9/11 I was shocked that everyone else didn’t reach this obvious conclusion.

Not overnight. And in the time it takes society to change to a new store of value, he’ll pay shills to say it’s bad while he stocks up on it himself.

Yeah Dogecoin, he only wanted one small enough to manipulate all day.

We’ll only really know if we auction him.

God wanted him to be king

The invisible hand selected the king

Imagine seeing a bird do a really shitty job of flying and being mad it’s wasting its gift.

Hedgehogs normally have sharp quills that make them uncomfortable to massage.

This is part of why I use an IDE with syntax highlighting. Because my coworkers are mischief goblins.

Quiet quitting is when you lazy it up until they fire you.

Is Zionist not a neutral term?

Qualified in terms of education and experience, not policy or public appeal.

If the genocide was already ongoing under a Democrat, then it’s not fascism, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism.

One of the most disturbing truths of the internet age is that we could have already had a utopia on Earth by now. It’s so easy to look back at the past and see how much better it could have gone if just a few tiny things had gone different.

But those inventions are still waiting to be discovered, and the social progress can still be had. Whenever we start building utopia, in hindsight it will look like we started at our darkest hour.

I believe the word she used was “ironclad”