the only one you're talking about
Is the one done by a community member who many people on here have actually met.
I can only hope you're aware of the irony of whining about this after years of us being subjected to "reactionary incel motte users sure to commit a mass shooting any day now" takes.
Pretty much everyone here has had the experience:
First they came for the gay communists, and I spoke out because the gay communists had been teaching me that dumb poem since I was 3.
Then the gay communists came for me and I was like ???
Then when they came for the gay communists again I said "make sure you get all the gay communists. Here I have a list, let me help"
SteveAgain
1d ago
Where are you going to keep a non-collapsible umbrella?
SteveAgain
1d ago
Thanks for the link. Slimepriestess
(★ Postbrat ★ Ex-Rat ★ Anarchist ★ Antifascist ★ Vegan ★ Qualia Enjoyer ★ Queer Icon ★ Not A Person ★ it/its ★) is the main ziz advocate on LW, and is the one whose YouTube podcast I linked above who supported them murdering the elderly man.
SteveAgain
2d ago
Big yud did chime in on one of the LW posts to say they got it wrong, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were playing fast and loose with the philosophical side
SteveAgain
2d ago
Of course they reported it lol. Thanks for the extended cite, I was still looking for it in this giant pile of tabs
They called it timeless-decision-theoretic-blackmail-absolute-morality theory on lesswrong
One of their beliefs is that unrelenting violence against oppressors such as BBQers, landlords, and elderly parents who keep calling you their son is justified even if it's not effective, because it can improve your ideology's bargaining position averaged across every other reality in the multiverse.
It's sort of like dying in a game of chicken and saying "yeah but committing to that head-on collision helped me win in other worldlines"
SteveAgain
2d ago
There's a link to it in my post, but maybe not the specific article fc saw
So a border patrol agent was killed by a trans vegan-extremist terror cult that came out of Bay Area rationalist culture. they seem to be responsible for at least 3 other deaths (including family members and a former landlord who was going to testify against one of their members on a felony murder charge), but have taken 40% casualties in the process.
Here is an archive link to the leader's blog
As usual Andy ngo is the only person talking about the case at all, although his summary seems to miss a lot of important details.
This is the same group that got arrested in Sonoma a few years ago while raiding a CFAR camp. I predicted at the time that this group would make the news again, so you can imagine that I am Steve's Complete Lack Of Surprise.
So, thoughts. San Francisco continues to generate weird murder suicide cults just as it has for the past... 80 years? This really needs to be investigated because the effect has persisted over numerous different ideological movements. My running theory outside of "something in the water" is that selective migration brings a lot of that sort of person to SF (with flowers in their hair); you'll notice the men in this group were from all over the country (and one from Germany), but were all the sorts of people who were looking for some militant cult to give them a sense of belonging.
Second, and this might be beating a dead horse here, consider the reaction of the "rationalist community" to this group over the years. Even after the murders started, the "horrible dangers of moldbug and why reactionaries must be purged from the community" got oceans of ink spilled compared to one or two blog posts about this group. Meanwhile rationalist groups were still awarding these guys grants. Here is another trans-vegan-r/sneerclub-LW activist who still supports them because murdering landlords is good.
The ability to selectively "problematize" and craft narratives continues to be the main source of leftist power, and seems to be almost completely impervious to evidence-based arguments.
Lastly, it seems like literally every member of this group was a transexual (it's hard to be sure when the news steadfastly refuses to notice "Emma's" Adam's apple) Considering this case alongside the now-infamous "trans-alpaca ranch holocaust", it really does seem like sexual ideologies act as a social technology that allows disturbed and dysfunctional men to overcome social atomization and organize into warbands. "Cut off your family but keep demanding money from them to fund the group" seems to be the main way the cult leaders both control people and fund their lifestyles, when they're not getting grants or NPR fundraisers organized for them.
SteveAgain
2d ago
Did you see the bio of the enforcer on the talk page?
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I need to reread the bioleninism series.
SteveAgain
2d ago
Good example of the strategy I described here https://www.themotte.org/post/1405/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/285720?context=8#context
SteveAgain
2d ago
Bit of an aside, but it's incredible how the Internet allows people to contribute through sheer autistic dedication, even if they're literally deaf mute cripples IRL.
I'd also recommend oilfield rando if you don't follow him. He just does individual grants.
Electric motors are not powerful enough to run 18 wheeler trucks
The largest vehicles use electric motors specifically because electric transmissions gain more advantages over mechanical ones the more powerful your engine. We've been building locomotives, heavy panzers, and battleships with electric motors since the 20s. Ironically trucks use mechanical transmissions because they're too small to really benefit from the low speed torque and multi-axle power distribution advantages of electric motors.
Most catastrophizing is based on this sort of weird mix of misunderstandings, half-understood factoids spun into narratives, and linear projections to infinity.
SteveAgain
3d ago
The list came straight from the ACLU and was either not vetted or vetted by an intern with the same radical sentiments. A nice capstone to the "adults in the room" presidency whose policies were set by the prestigious Tumblr Kid think-tank.
SteveAgain
3d ago
The speed of strategic evolution in multiplayer vs single player games is amazing. There's a bunch of autistic shipbuilding simulators out there (aurora, coade, etc.) where everyone has just been larping at strategy the same way for decades, whereas the nubulous meta looks different every time I check on it.
SteveAgain
4d ago
but they're already doing it with new rail lines to Mongolia. The progress they've made in just a few years means it's not just speculative bullshit.
SteveAgain
5d ago
I think he's got a point, and the ban was retarded. The funny part is that he made the same slightly catty remarks about white identity people that certain mods do, it was apparently just the wrong kind of catty.
SteveAgain
5d ago
The guy who left a bacon sandwich in front of a mosque or something did die in prison, but that's the closest I can think of so far.
SteveAgain
6d ago
I didn't buy Windows for my new computer
People buy windows outside the, uh, GitHub store?
SteveAgain
6d ago
How good are the new BP substitutes? Are they any cleaner?
I've always figured if I get into reloading I'd probably start with a black powder carbine
SteveAgain
6d ago
Does anyone else have a wood stove with a really long chimney? Mine is on a long side of the house, 45 degree roof, cap above the roof peak. Not exactly accessible.
Just had a sootfall from the cap that blocked the draft and caused a very smoky disaster while lighting. Need to get up on the platform I built on the roof years ago, but not without a safety rope: it's probably kinda rotten.
I'd much rather be tinkering with my other projects than the consequences of deferred house maintenance.
Tbf it's probably easier to make full cards fall off the truck on their way to a distributor than batches of cores vanish on their way to board manufacturers. That part of the chain is watched closely.
The Chinese already have a huge scam infrastructure for pulling cores and returning the boards as broken. Lotta people getting the ol Chinese open box experience lol.
https://hardforum.com/threads/4090s-being-sold-from-china-containing-no-gpu.2032868/
I think you can fit a lot more than 5000 gpus on a shipping container. Only the core is really needed; the Chinese have no problem buying memory chips or making VRMs and fans to turn the cores into boards. Those outer components are probably made in China or Vietnam already.
I spoke to someone who got to San Francisco in 1962 and stayed there through some of its weirder history.
He independently agreed that it's mostly a matter of what sorts of people the city attracts.
The other factor he raised is that there were entire communities there where working a real job was social death: if you had one you desperately tried to hide it. Everyone was a writer, a musician, an artist, living off family money, side jobs, government handouts, drug dealing, or some sort of grift. Those environments become a breeding ground for exploitative cults as the Beatnik Geeks give way to Hippie Mops and Sociopaths.
Guys would show up, become gurus, and instantly end up running a cult living in someone else's rent-controlled apartment and spending the family pocket money or welfare of the loser marks who joined up.
Of course these days the pattern is totally different because everyone is a Freelance Journalist, a social media corp Inclusion Evangelist, or Serious AI Human Extinction Risk Theorist...
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