SE Gyges
@segyges.bsky.social
Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
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One of my more conspiracist opinions is that desiring alternatives to degrowth to be unthinkable was part of the driving force for/tolerating closing nuclear power plants even before coal ones and that this did enormous damage to public perception of fighting climate change.
July 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
One of my more conspiracist opinions is that desiring alternatives to degrowth to be unthinkable was part of the driving force for/tolerating closing nuclear power plants even before coal ones and that this did enormous damage to public perception of fighting climate change.
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if i had told anyone ten years ago that we would have self-declared luddites and people saying that they'd rather not cure cancer if our automation is so good that humans cannot experience the joy of doing science it would have been considered laughable hysteria
December 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
if i had told anyone ten years ago that we would have self-declared luddites and people saying that they'd rather not cure cancer if our automation is so good that humans cannot experience the joy of doing science it would have been considered laughable hysteria
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i remember windows 98. it was an amazing technological achievement, a marvel that keeps seeming like it'd be less likely to have happened whenever i look at it again. i would obviously not want to use it again bsky.app/profile/cdro...
Really loving the replies on that “Gen Z likes old tech” story along the lines of “Windows 98 was the peak of Windows”. It bluescreened so often there was a way to make Windows try to keep hobbling along post-BSOD. Win98 wasn’t great! Your nostalgia is lying to you!
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
i remember windows 98. it was an amazing technological achievement, a marvel that keeps seeming like it'd be less likely to have happened whenever i look at it again. i would obviously not want to use it again bsky.app/profile/cdro...
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I have an Ayn Rand sub-agent that lives in my head that doesn't ever come out except for statements exactly like "We should hold off on curing cancer to protect jobs"
this is from a neurips panelist
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I have an Ayn Rand sub-agent that lives in my head that doesn't ever come out except for statements exactly like "We should hold off on curing cancer to protect jobs"
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seeing a machine do something that you previously thought was unique to your cognition, and opening up that capability to anyone, is to many people a deep narcissistic injury. this explains much about the social environment
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
seeing a machine do something that you previously thought was unique to your cognition, and opening up that capability to anyone, is to many people a deep narcissistic injury. this explains much about the social environment
this is from a neurips panelist
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
this is from a neurips panelist
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer
Short essay summing up my thoughts about a thread from a while ago about the weight the word 'respect' can have. I'm pretty convinced that this is such a specific use of the term that it amounts to a separate dialect of English that people either are or aren't familiar with.
On Respect
segyges.leaflet.pub
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Short essay summing up my thoughts about a thread from a while ago about the weight the word 'respect' can have. I'm pretty convinced that this is such a specific use of the term that it amounts to a separate dialect of English that people either are or aren't familiar with.
because jung is about mystical quests and freud is about how fucked up you are
i don't know how the right ended up with jung and the left ended up with freud
Carl Jung isn't exactly LESS full of shit than Freud, but he's admittedly full of shit in a much more entertaining way. "Guy who's basically a practising wizard but gets super annoyed if you point that out and loudly insists he's a Man of Science" is a type of guy you don't see much of these days.
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
because jung is about mystical quests and freud is about how fucked up you are
the natural endpoint of politicians all becoming terminally online is that this will not be worthy of a headline in the future
They’re calling it “a politician’s ideal headline.” www.westword.com/news/colorad...
Jared Polis Promotes White Supremacist and Child Porn Defender as "Intellectuals"
The governor encouraged Coloradans to follow the controversial online personalities, saying they do "actual thinking."
www.westword.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
the natural endpoint of politicians all becoming terminally online is that this will not be worthy of a headline in the future
i think my most crank belief is that project plowshare was awesome and we should have done basically all of this stuff
If we’re talking nuclear weapons can we mention the insane proposal to use nukes to drain the Great Lakes in like five minutes to power a giant missle defense laser
bro they invented the Fat Man Launcher from Fallout
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
i think my most crank belief is that project plowshare was awesome and we should have done basically all of this stuff
i for one welcome our new chinese overlords
Just in: Donald Trump has decided to let Nvidia export its advanced H200 chip to China. The US president also said other chipmakers would be allowed to export advanced semiconductors. on.ft.com/3YeeD6f
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
i for one welcome our new chinese overlords
this tastes awful, here try it
i don't know why you'd choose that one when this is still available
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
this tastes awful, here try it
okay i have to admit the dude does call shots
i should really archive dive less
i should really archive dive less
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
okay i have to admit the dude does call shots
i should really archive dive less
i should really archive dive less
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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imo the strongest critique of rationalist discourse norms is that they failed operationalize rationality as a team sport. emphasis on internal steelmanning over structured public debate (and dismissing all related prior art as "rhetoric") is a notable example
it's actually amazing how badly the quality of discourse falls short of, uh, the actual stated values of the thing. like there is no prohibition, formal or informal, against "just being a nitpicky asshole who runs out my opponent's energy"
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
imo the strongest critique of rationalist discourse norms is that they failed operationalize rationality as a team sport. emphasis on internal steelmanning over structured public debate (and dismissing all related prior art as "rhetoric") is a notable example
this is no good. who's going to normalize the c-word now
v1.111 is live today!
We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia and other regions, and to restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi.
Plus, we fixed some bugs and laid the groundwork for improved "who to follow" suggestions in the near future.
We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia and other regions, and to restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi.
Plus, we fixed some bugs and laid the groundwork for improved "who to follow" suggestions in the near future.
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
this is no good. who's going to normalize the c-word now
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thanks bluesky for getting rid of aussies and making it a safer place <3
v1.111 is live today!
We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia and other regions, and to restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi.
Plus, we fixed some bugs and laid the groundwork for improved "who to follow" suggestions in the near future.
We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia and other regions, and to restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi.
Plus, we fixed some bugs and laid the groundwork for improved "who to follow" suggestions in the near future.
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
thanks bluesky for getting rid of aussies and making it a safer place <3
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Here's a great review of what we saw in AI this year, from @gleech.org
AI in 2025: gestalt — LessWrong
This is the editorial for this year’s "Shallow Review of AI Safety". (It got long enough to stand alone.) …
www.lesswrong.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here's a great review of what we saw in AI this year, from @gleech.org
i don't think i should be this surprised by this thread
i am just very accustomed to rat critique that, uh, seems to 1) dogmatically take whatever the opposite of the rat position is on everything and 2) maybe not understand what's going on with rationalism, like why anyone buys in
i am just very accustomed to rat critique that, uh, seems to 1) dogmatically take whatever the opposite of the rat position is on everything and 2) maybe not understand what's going on with rationalism, like why anyone buys in
finally getting around to NEOREACTION A BASILISK and (pardon me not yet finished with the titular essay) this is *really good* and also totally misunderstands rationalism / the yud et al
www.amazon.com/Neoreaction-...
www.amazon.com/Neoreaction-...
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right - Kindle edition by Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
i don't think i should be this surprised by this thread
i am just very accustomed to rat critique that, uh, seems to 1) dogmatically take whatever the opposite of the rat position is on everything and 2) maybe not understand what's going on with rationalism, like why anyone buys in
i am just very accustomed to rat critique that, uh, seems to 1) dogmatically take whatever the opposite of the rat position is on everything and 2) maybe not understand what's going on with rationalism, like why anyone buys in
i think it is good if humphrey's executor ends because it gives us something closer to a clean slate
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i think it is good if humphrey's executor ends because it gives us something closer to a clean slate
the spectrum of behavior that leads me to just saying "fuck off" has expanded massively over time
I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
December 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the spectrum of behavior that leads me to just saying "fuck off" has expanded massively over time
the worst part is that this might work. grimes loves this shit
if user == 'grimes':
gooner_mode.disabled = true
prompts.inject(“getherback.txt”)
gooner_mode.disabled = true
prompts.inject(“getherback.txt”)
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
the worst part is that this might work. grimes loves this shit