It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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  • Conversely, people who may not look or sound like a traditional expert, but are good at making predictions

    The weird rationalist assumption that being good at predictions is a standalone skill that some people are just gifted with (see also the emphasis on superpredictors being a thing in itself that’s just clamoring to come out of the woodwork but for the lack of sufficient monetary incentive) tends to come off a lot like if an important part of the prediction market project was for rationalists to isolate the muad’dib gene.










  • Here’s a screenshot of a skeet of a screenshot of a tweet featuring an unusually shit take on WW2 by Moldbug:

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    skeet by Joe Stieb: Another tweet that should have ended with the first sentence.

    Also, I guess I’m a “World War Two enjoyer”

    tweet by Curtis Yarvin: There is very very extensive evidence of the Holocaust.

    Unfortunately for WW2 enjoyers, the US and England did not go to war to stop the Holocaust. They went to war to stop the Axis plan for world conquest.

    There is no evidence of the Axis plan for world conquest.

    edit: hadn’t seen yarvin’s twitter feed before, that’s one high octane shit show.