Demanding that EY et al define “woman” for them so that they can know whether or not they can transition is simultaneously hilarious and deeply sad.
pja
joined 2 years ago
I’m amazed that the random shitposting of a bunch of nerds who band together purely to dunk on terrible rationalist takes weighs so heavily on their minds. Aren’t they supposed to be above that kind of thing?
They’re up to their armpits in a pit of self-loathing of their own making & unable to take any of the proffered help because their self-imposed ethical system doesn’t permit it.
Profoundly sad is exactly what it is.
Yup. Discoverability in Discord servers is dire. The privacy issues are the bonus shit topping.
“How dare you not read through six months of discussion threads in order to find the last time your question was answered” is such a great way to welcome newbies to a project.
Discord is actually pretty good at the thing it was designed for: realtime comms between friends, both text & voice. It’s terrible at everything else & I wish people would stop using it, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen any time soon.
Can you federate with a Reddit? Is that a thing?
Discord is terrible. But it’s also easy to set up & easy wins out over good but annoying every time.
wat indeed.
Twenty minutes, in a language you hadn’t seen before? Sure.
Molly White has been doing fine work.
So, having effectively run off with $billions of real people’s money, what next for the effective altruism crew? A pivot to AI doom-mongering?
Personally, I find the default awful.systems theme godawful, so anything else would be an improvement. (I have just discovered that there are themes in the per-user settings & have switched to something less eye-wincingly painful in fact.)
When the SV techbro culture goes mask off & you realise you’re surrounding yourself with the worst possible people.
(Follows link to authors blog, reads blogroll)
JFC. Kathleen Stock. They have the entire universe of gender studies to choose from & Kathleen Stock is their philosopher of choice.